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    SubjectRe: 2.1.89 broken?
    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?

    Rik.
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