A lot more functionality is ascribed to swappiness than it deserves. I'd be thinking this is more an issue in the buddy allocator. The slub allocator is much better at handling things in more recent kernels. Should be the default IMHO.
Shane ... On Thu, 2010-08-05 at 11:38 -0600, Mark Post wrote: > >>> On 8/5/2010 at 11:36 AM, Marcy Cortes <[email protected]> > >>> wrote: > > Decrease to 0 is what I've been advocating under VM. Keeps linux from doing > > preemptive moves to swap. Just let VM see the page is being not used and he > > will page it out. > > Probably not what you want when your Linux system is having memory > fragmentation problems. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
