Re: git: kernel - vm - Change inactive target to 1/4 memory inst
Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> wrote:
> :On my troublesome 2GB machine, the inactive memory is now ~= 750M, which
> :is about 1/3 of RAM, quite far from the 1/4 target.
> :
> :--
> :Francois Tigeot
>
> It's just a target for the pageout daemon, it isn't something the
> machine tries to hold itself to.
>
> Guys... everyone. Please don't try to interpret the values for
> the active & inactive queues. Even a good chunk of the analysis of
> the swap space use is wrong. There's absolutely nothing wrong with
> the machine paging stuff out to swap. The issue is only whether it
> does so to the degree that later pageins effect performance.
>
> Avalon, for example, usually has 200-400MB of idle data swapped out
> which it basically never touches. It doesn't effect avalon's
> performance.
One point is probabely whether swap is on a disk with otherwise high
IO rate. On my single disk system it is clearly a performance problem
if program data is paged out due to filesystem activity because then
the paging in is very slow.
I can trigger this situation with
hammer cleanup
but also with
find / -type f | xargs md5
Maybe on avalon the swap space is on a separate disk in which
case paging back in is faster?
Cheers,
Johannes
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