From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 References: <413CB661.6030303@sgi.com> <20040906162740.54a5d6c9.akpm@osdl.org> Message-ID: From: Con Kolivas Subject: Re: swapping and the value of /proc/sys/vm/swappiness Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2004 09:34:20 +1000 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Andrew Morton Cc: raybry@sgi.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, riel@redhat.com, piggin@cyberone.com.au, mbligh@aracnet.com List-ID: Andrew Morton writes: > Con Kolivas wrote: >> >> > A scan of the change logs for swappiness related changes shows nothing that >> > might explain these changes. My question is: "Is this change in behavior >> > deliberate, or just a side effect of other changes that were made in the vm?" >> > and "What kind of swappiness behavior might I expect to find in future kernels?". >> >> The change was not deliberate but there have been some other people report >> significant changes in the swappiness behaviour as well (see archives). It >> has usually been of the increased swapping variety lately. It has been >> annoying enough to the bleeding edge desktop users for a swag of out-of-tree >> hacks to start appearing (like mine). > > All of which is largely wasted effort. It would be much more useful to get > down and identify which patch actually caused the behavioural change. I don't disagree. Is there anyone who has the time and is willing to do the regression testing? This is a general appeal to the mailing list. Cheers, Con -- 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