On 04/24/2012 04:20 AM, Richard Davies wrote: > > I have run into problems with heavy swapping with swappiness==0 and > was pointed to this thread ( > http://marc.info/?l=linux-mm&m=133522782307215 ) Did you test this patch with your workload? If yes, how did it come out? > I strongly believe that Linux should have a way to turn off swapping > unless absolutely necessary. This means that users like us can run > with swap present for emergency use, rather than having to disable it > because of the side effects. Agreed. That is why I proposed the patch. > Personally, I feel that swappiness==0 should have this (intuitive) > meaning, and that people running RHEL5 are extremely unlikely to run > 3.5 kernels(!) > > However, swappiness==-1 or some other hack is definitely better than > no patch. Regards, Satoru -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: <a href