“Con Kolivas released 2.6.7-ck5, his kernel patchset aimed at
improving system responsiveness with emphasis on the desktop. A fan
of the patchset asked when some of this work would be merged into
the mainline kernel, launching an interesting discussion between
Con and 2.6 stable Linux kernel maintainer, Andrew Morton.“Con provided two patches, ‘autoswap’ and ‘vm_autoregulate’,
aimed at automatically tuning system swappiness. Also included were
benchmark results, showing dramatic improvements on a system under
swap. Andrew didn’t yet sound completely sold on the idea, but was
interested enough to provide some constructive feedback on how to
improve the patches and get them into a state that they might be
merged…”
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