From: Mike Galbraith <mikeg@wen-online.de>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
arjanv@redhat.com, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Subject: Re: Thinko in kswapd?
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 19:22:08 +0100 (CET) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0103221911230.999-100000@mikeg.weiden.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E14g9X7-00030H-00@the-village.bc.nu>
On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, Alan Cox wrote:
> > pull it all right back in again. It continues through the entire
> > build with the cost seen in the time numbers. (the ac20.virgin run
> > was worse by 30 secs than average, but that doesn't matter much)
>
> Using my reference interactive test (An application which renders 3D graphics
> and generates fairly measurable VM traffic with AGP texture mapping)[1] the
> graphical flow is noticably stalling where it didn't before.
>
> Throughput seems to be up but interactivity is bad.
If you set the amount that kswapd goes after to be a fraction of
inactive_target and leave Stephens change in but ensure that a
schedule happens between loops, IIRC interactive is pretty nice
while swapping. (haven't tried that particular variant in a while)
-Mike
--
To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in
the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM,
see: http://www.linux.eu.org/Linux-MM/
prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-03-22 18:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-03-22 14:58 Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-03-22 17:36 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-03-22 18:18 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-03-22 17:53 ` Mike Galbraith
2001-03-22 18:09 ` Alan Cox
2001-03-22 18:22 ` Mike Galbraith [this message]
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=Pine.LNX.4.33.0103221911230.999-100000@mikeg.weiden.de \
--to=mikeg@wen-online.de \
--cc=alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk \
--cc=arjanv@redhat.com \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=linux-mm@kvack.org \
--cc=sct@redhat.com \
--cc=torvalds@transmeta.com \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox