Re: /proc/sys/vm/freepages not writable.

From: Rik van Riel (riel@conectiva.com.br)
Date: Sun Sep 17 2000 - 13:53:47 EST

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On Sun, 17 Sep 2000, Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 03:09:52PM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote:

> > 1. The inactive_target is 1 second worth of allocations, minus
> > the amount of frees in 1 second, averaged over a minute
>
> So it cannot take load bursts. That's ok for a default, but for
> special loads it would be good if there was a way for the
> administrator to overwrite that, similar to the old freepages.

OK, lets see if we can come up with some nice (self-tuning?)
idea for this at Linux Kongress ;)

regards,

Rik

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