Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 17 Sep 2000 20:20:07 +0200 | From | "Andi Kleen" <> | Subject | Re: /proc/sys/vm/freepages not writable. |
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On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 03:09:52PM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote: > On Sun, 17 Sep 2000, Andi Kleen wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 02:35:42PM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote: > > > Also, the fact that the new VM keeps a list of directly > > > reclaimable inactive pages around that varies according > > > to the amount of VM activity should make tweaking this > > > value no longer needed... > > > > So there is no way to force the VM to keep lots of pages around > > for interrupt intensive load (like gigabit networking?) Is > > there a way to enforce that the inactive list is always well > > filled ? > > 1. The inactive_target is 1 second worth of allocations, minus > the amount of frees in 1 second, averaged over a minute
So it cannot take load bursts. That's ok for a default, but for special loads it would be good if there was a way for the administrator to overwrite that, similar to the old freepages.
-Andi
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