Re: NUMA: Patch for node based swapping

From: Rik van Riel
Date: Tue Oct 12 2004 - 10:33:52 EST


On Tue, 12 Oct 2004, Christoph Lameter wrote:

> The minimum may be controlled through /proc/sys/vm/node_swap.
> By default node_swap is set to 100 which means that kswapd will be run on
> a zone if less than 10% are available after allocation.

That sounds like an extraordinarily bad idea for eg. AMD64
systems, which have a very low numa factor.

--
"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.
Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan

-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/