Re: BUG: Slowdown on 3000 socket-machines tracked down

[Andrew Morton]

Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 01:09:55AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > In general to solve it one has to increase /proc/sys/vm/freepages
> > >  a lot.
> > 
> > /proc/sys/vm/min_free_kbytes
> 
> Oh yes, I still have the old 2.2 name in my finger tips
> 
> (never understood why these things need to be always renamed; I guess
> keeping the old name would have made it too easy on administrators) 
> 

Page sizes vary.  kbytes do not.  So scripts and documentation will work
correctly cross-platform, and when you change PAGE_SIZE.
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