From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from sunset.ma.huji.ac.il (sunset.ma.huji.ac.il [132.64.32.12]) by kvack.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id DAA14768 for ; Fri, 19 Dec 1997 03:32:09 -0500 Received: from ladybug.org.il (dial-12-2.slip.huji.ac.il [128.139.9.140]) by sunset.ma.huji.ac.il (8.6.11/8.6.10) with ESMTP id KAA17028 for ; Fri, 19 Dec 1997 10:27:21 +0200 Date: Thu, 18 Dec 1997 20:53:28 +0200 (IST) From: Moshe Zadka Subject: Re: ideas for a swapping daemon In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: Seems like a good idea. But experience with vhand shows that what we should be most careful about is waking the swapping daemon too often, consuming resources. So, if anyone is writing it (I might start by patching kswapd's routines to allow "forcing"), please keep an easily configurable parameter (perhaps run-time adjusted through proc-fs) controlling how often it is woken up, for easier determining of the heuristics. -- Moshe Zadka - moshez@math.huji.ac.il Violating RFC2049 Should Be a Shooting Offense