From: Ingo Oeser <ingo.oeser@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de>
To: Andrew Morton <andrewm@uow.edu.au>
Cc: "Mr. Big" <mrbig@sneaker.sch.bme.hu>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rik@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de
Subject: readonly /proc/sys/vm/freepages (was: Re: PROBLEM: crashing kernels)
Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2000 14:30:59 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20001126143059.M13759@nightmaster.csn.tu-chemnitz.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.1001124183828.385A-100000@sneaker.sch.bme.hu> <3A20501E.32EEB3C8@uow.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <3A20501E.32EEB3C8@uow.edu.au>; from andrewm@uow.edu.au on Sun, Nov 26, 2000 at 10:49:50AM +1100
On Sun, Nov 26, 2000 at 10:49:50AM +1100, Andrew Morton wrote:
> You may also get some benefit from running:
>
> # echo "512 1024 1536" > /proc/sys/vm/freepages
>
> after booting.
... which is a NOOP on recent 2.4.0-testX-kernels. So please
complain at Rik for this (CC'ed him) ;-)
It's simply not that easy to set in the new VM since we count the
inactive_clean and/or inactive_dirty pages like free pages in
some cases.
> The default values are a little too low for
> applications which are very network intensive.
Especially for low memory machines, which are dedicated only for
this purpose. Many people use (embedded) Linux and a (embedded)
PC to cheaply fill functionality gaps in industrial environments.
Regards
Ingo Oeser
--
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serve only to provide a test load.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-11-26 13:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-11-25 18:18 PROBLEM: crashing kernels Mr. Big
2000-11-25 18:25 ` Alan Cox
2000-11-25 18:44 ` Mr. Big
2000-11-25 18:47 ` Alan Cox
2000-11-25 19:46 ` Eric W. Biederman
2000-11-25 21:06 ` Mr. Big
2000-11-25 23:49 ` Andrew Morton
2000-11-26 13:30 ` Ingo Oeser [this message]
2000-11-26 18:36 ` readonly /proc/sys/vm/freepages (was: Re: PROBLEM: crashing kernels) Rik van Riel
2000-11-27 18:12 ` Roger Larsson
2000-11-26 16:06 ` PROBLEM: crashing kernels Mr. Big
2000-11-27 17:30 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2000-11-27 17:37 ` Mr. Big
2000-11-27 19:04 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2000-11-27 19:35 ` Mr. Big
2000-11-28 8:42 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2000-11-28 18:34 ` Mr. Big
2000-11-29 11:51 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2000-11-30 10:48 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
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