From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2002 14:39:26 -0300 (BRT) From: Rik van Riel Subject: Re: 2.5.34-mm4 In-Reply-To: <3D84C63E.76526EDE@digeo.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Andrew Morton Cc: Axel Siebenwirth , Con Kolivas , lkml , "linux-mm@kvack.org" , "lse-tech@lists.sourceforge.net" List-ID: On Sun, 15 Sep 2002, Andrew Morton wrote: > Axel Siebenwirth wrote: > > I have seen that it used more swap that usual. > > 2.5 is much more swaphappy than 2.4. I believe that this is actually > correct behaviour for optimum throughput. But it just happens that > people (me included) hate it. Time for a corollary to "if you can't measure it, it doesn't exist": "If you can't measure desktop performance, our method of development will ensure it won't exist" cheers, Rik -- Bravely reimplemented by the knights who say "NIH". http://www.surriel.com/ http://distro.conectiva.com/ Spamtraps of the month: september@surriel.com trac@trac.org -- 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/