Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 8 Aug 1996 19:19:03 +0100 | From | "Stephen C. Tweedie" <> | Subject | Re: Linux vm parameters |
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Hi,
In article <Pine.LNX.3.91.960807133029.4793A-100000@davids.wiznet.net>, David Schwartz <davids@wiznet.net> writes:
> I think it would be nice if Linux had a few tunable parameters to > allow people to adjust how memory is handled. Settings to control how > agressively Linux swaps and how much free memory is kept would, I think, > be valuable for people who like to fine-tune their memory-management.
Check out /proc/sys/vm. It's full of that kind of mm tuning parameters.
> Consider a system that sits idle most of the time but > occasionally is hit by huge bursts of network traffic but does little to > no disk access. This system would prefer to keep more free pages for > atomic allocation.
echo 300 400 500 > /proc/sys/vm/freepages
> We have a very nice /proc interface for setting these parameters. > Where are they?
In /proc/sys. Hey, I might even get around to documenting them some day. :)
Cheers, Stephen. -- Stephen Tweedie <sct@dcs.ed.ac.uk> Department of Computer Science, Edinburgh University, Scotland.
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