From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 11:27:20 -0400 (EDT) From: Rik van Riel Subject: Re: NUMA: Patch for node based swapping 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: Christoph Lameter Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Tue, 12 Oct 2004, Christoph Lameter wrote: > The minimum may be controlled through /proc/sys/vm/node_swap. > By default node_swap is set to 100 which means that kswapd will be run on > a zone if less than 10% are available after allocation. That sounds like an extraordinarily bad idea for eg. AMD64 systems, which have a very low numa factor. -- "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan -- 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-mm.org/ . Don't email: aart@kvack.org