Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Values in /proc/sys/vm/* ? | Date | Thu, 24 Apr 1997 16:26:48 +0200 | From | Olaf Titz <> |
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In article <5jlodp$7fq@nz11.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> you write: > What do the values in /proc/sys/vm/* in 2.0 mean? > The numbers in "freepages" are documented in the source code > (and I've used them to tune a few machines), but the rest are > a mystery to me.
Apparently, in "kswapd" the first number determines how many pages kswapd tries to swap out at once and the others are unused. If space is tight and "Couldn't get a free page" seen often, it sometimes helps to up this number along with the freepages numbers.
> This might be something to add to the Documentation directory, I think.
Definitely...
olaf
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