Re: 2.6.0-test9 - poor swap performance on low end machines

From: Rik van Riel (riel_at_redhat.com)
Date: 10/31/03

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    To: Chris Vine <chris@cvine.freeserve.co.uk>
    
    

    On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, Chris Vine wrote:

    > However, on a low end machine (200MHz Pentium MMX uniprocessor with only 32MB
    > of RAM and 70MB of swap) I get poor performance once extensive use is made of
    > the swap space.

    Could you try the patch Con Kolivas posted on the 25th ?

    Subject: [PATCH] Autoregulate vm swappiness cleanup

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