Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 21 Apr 1998 11:30:36 +0200 (MET DST) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: 2.1.97 mm and cache |
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On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, Michael Remski wrote:
> Unfortunately, it's not clear if "max" is the percentage of total memory > or memory left.
It's the percentage of total memory.
> At any rate, if you set the max percentage on both lower, they should > use less memory for cacheing overall; I don't know what would be > optimum for different amounts of memory/type of load on the system.
Optimally, the borrow percent should be all that's needed :) I'm working on it (as soon as I've dug through the mail).
> Maybe someone on the mm team (Rik?) could give some tips?
Well, I wrote the documentation... It's just unfortunate that people don't give me feedback and go frustrate themselves with any questions remaining :-)
<RANT> This is the _second_ (IIRC) piece of feedback I've seen on the documentation, and it wasn't even addressed to me...
Now, how am I supposed to fix the documentation? </RANT>
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