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From: Helge Hafting <helgehaf@aitel.hist.no>
To: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>,
	Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>,
	Chris Vine <chris@cvine.freeserve.co.uk>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	"Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>
Subject: Re: 2.6.0-test9 - poor swap performance on low end machines
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 00:30:50 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031210233050.GA16653@hh.idb.hist.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031210135829.GA18370@k3.hellgate.ch>

On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 02:58:29PM +0100, Roger Luethi wrote:
> 
> What goes wrong is that once you start suspending tasks, you have a
> hard time telling the interactive tasks apart from the batch load.
> This may not be much of a problem on a 10x overcommit system, because
> that's presumably quite unresponsive anyway, but it does matter a lot if
> you have an interactive system that just crossed the border to thrashing.
> 
This isn't too bad.  Lets say I use the system interavtively and the "wrong"
app suddenly is swapped out.  I notice this, and simply close
down some responsive apps that are less needed.  The system
will then notice that there's "enough" memory and allow
the app to page in again.

Helge Hafting

  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-12-10 23:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 63+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-10-29 22:30 2.6.0-test9 - poor swap performance on low end machines Chris Vine
2003-10-31  3:57 ` Rik van Riel
2003-10-31 11:26   ` Roger Luethi
2003-10-31 12:37     ` Con Kolivas
2003-10-31 12:59       ` Roger Luethi
2003-10-31 12:55     ` Ed Tomlinson
2003-11-01 18:34       ` Pasi Savolainen
2003-11-06 18:40       ` bill davidsen
2003-10-31 21:52   ` Chris Vine
2003-11-02 23:06   ` Chris Vine
2003-11-03  0:48     ` Con Kolivas
2003-11-03 21:13       ` Chris Vine
2003-11-04  2:55         ` Con Kolivas
2003-11-04 22:08           ` Chris Vine
2003-11-04 22:30             ` Con Kolivas
2003-12-08 13:52           ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-12-08 14:23             ` Con Kolivas
2003-12-08 14:30               ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-12-09 21:03               ` Chris Vine
2003-12-13 14:08               ` Chris Vine
2003-12-08 19:49             ` Roger Luethi
2003-12-08 20:48               ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-12-09  0:27                 ` Roger Luethi
2003-12-09  4:05                   ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-12-09 15:11                     ` Roger Luethi
2003-12-09 16:04                       ` Rik van Riel
2003-12-09 16:31                         ` Roger Luethi
2003-12-09 18:31                       ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-12-09 19:38                       ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-12-10 13:58                         ` Roger Luethi
2003-12-10 17:47                           ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-12-10 22:23                             ` Roger Luethi
2003-12-11  0:12                               ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-12-10 21:04                           ` Rik van Riel
2003-12-10 23:17                             ` Roger Luethi
2003-12-11  1:31                               ` Rik van Riel
2003-12-11 10:16                                 ` Roger Luethi
2003-12-10 23:30                           ` Helge Hafting [this message]
2003-12-10 21:52                 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-12-10 22:05                   ` Roger Luethi
2003-12-10 22:44                     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-12-11  1:28                       ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-12-11  1:32                         ` Rik van Riel
2003-12-11 10:16                       ` Roger Luethi
2003-12-15 23:31                       ` Andrew Morton
2003-12-15 23:37                         ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-12-15 23:54                           ` Andrew Morton
2003-12-16  0:17                             ` Rik van Riel
2003-12-16 11:23                             ` Roger Luethi
2003-12-16 16:29                               ` Rik van Riel
2003-12-17 11:03                                 ` Roger Luethi
2003-12-17 11:06                                   ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-12-17 16:50                                     ` Roger Luethi
2003-12-17 11:33                                   ` Rik van Riel
2003-12-17 18:53                               ` Rik van Riel
2003-12-17 19:27                                 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-12-17 19:51                                   ` Rik van Riel
2003-12-17 19:49                                 ` Roger Luethi
2003-12-17 21:41                                   ` Andrew Morton
2003-12-17 21:41                                   ` Roger Luethi
2003-12-18  0:21                                     ` Rik van Riel
2003-12-18 22:53                                       ` Roger Luethi
2003-12-18 23:38                                         ` William Lee Irwin III

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