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Linux 6.11 To Offer More Fine-Tuned Control Over Swappiness (www.phoronix.com)
submitted 8 months ago by lemmee_in@lemm.ee to c/linux@programming.dev
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As part of the memory management changes expected to be merged for the upcoming Linux 6.11 cycle is allowing more fine-tuned control over the swappiness setting used to determine how aggressively pages are swapped out of physical system memory and into the on-disk swap space.

With the new code from Meta, a swappiness argument is supported for memory.reclaim. This effectively allows more finer-grained control over the swapiness behavior without overriding the global swappiness setting.

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[–] cbarrick@lemmy.world 12 points 8 months ago

TL;DR - We can now control swappiness per cgroup instead of just globally. This is something that userspace oom killers will want to use.