From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 19:22:08 +0100 (CET) From: Mike Galbraith Subject: Re: Thinko in kswapd? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Alan Cox Cc: "Stephen C. Tweedie" , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, arjanv@redhat.com, Linus Torvalds List-ID: 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/