Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 10 Mar 1998 12:09:40 +0100 (MET) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: 2.1.89 broken? |
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On 10 Mar 1998, Trond Eivind Glomsrød wrote:
> I am of the belief that having almost 60 MB disk cache on a 60 > MBworkstation is a bit of an overkill...
Hmm, yes. Time for a little tuning in /proc/sys/vm/*...
Here's my /proc/sys/vm/swapctl: 8 8 1 8 0 0 0 0 \ 64 4 1024 1024 -200 1 1 0
Note the 1024 values for SWAPOUT_WEIGHT and BUFFOUT_WEIGHT, this means that the system will be somewhat less agressive.
I even wrote documentation for these files :-)
> OK - the performance is worse for me (I thought that was implicit, given > the huge swap) since it spends much time swapping - during which it is > utterly irresponsive.
The swapping is hugely due to free_memory_available(), how's performance with the uPatch I just posted?
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