linux-kernel - RE: la la la la ... swappiness

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Message-Id: <200612050641.kB56f7wY018196@ms-smtp-06.texas.rr.com>
Date:	Tue, 5 Dec 2006 00:41:07 -0600
From:	"Aucoin" <Aucoin@...ston.RR.com>
To:	"'Linus Torvalds'" <torvalds@...l.org>
Cc:	"'Nick Piggin'" <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au>,
	"'Tim Schmielau'" <tim@...sik3.uni-rostock.de>,
	"'Andrew Morton'" <akpm@...l.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	<clameter@....com>
Subject: RE: la la la la ... swappiness

> From: Linus Torvalds [mailto:torvalds@...l.org]
> I actually suspect you should be _fairly_ close to such a situation

We run with min_free_kbytes set around 4k to answer your earlier question.

> Louis, exactly how do you allocate that big 1.6GB shared area?

Ummm, shm_open, ftruncate, mmap ? Is it a trick question ? The process
responsible for initially setting up the shared area doesn't stay resident.


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