Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 17 Sep 2000 15:09:52 -0300 (BRST) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: /proc/sys/vm/freepages not writable. |
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On Sun, 17 Sep 2000, Andi Kleen wrote: > On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 02:35:42PM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote: > > Also, the fact that the new VM keeps a list of directly > > reclaimable inactive pages around that varies according > > to the amount of VM activity should make tweaking this > > value no longer needed... > > So there is no way to force the VM to keep lots of pages around > for interrupt intensive load (like gigabit networking?) Is > there a way to enforce that the inactive list is always well > filled ?
1. The inactive_target is 1 second worth of allocations, minus the amount of frees in 1 second, averaged over a minute 2. When the amount of really free pages gets low, a separate thread moves inactive_clean pages to the free list (so no chance of kswapd not doing this because it's blocked on disk)
regards,
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