Patch to memory-tuning.txt

Thomas Koenig (ig25@mvmap66.ciw.uni-karlsruhe.de)
Tue, 22 Jul 1997 09:42:03 +0200 (MET DST)

This is to account for the echo commands which do multiple writes, for
the next pre-2.0.31 kernel.

--- Documentation/memory-tuning.txt.orig Tue Jul 22 09:39:55 1997
+++ Documentation/memory-tuning.txt Tue Jul 22 09:39:42 1997
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@

You can adjust these with a command such as:

-# echo 128 256 512 > /proc/sys/vm/freepages
+# echo "128 256 512" > /proc/sys/vm/freepages

Free memory never goes down below min_free_pages except for atomic
allocation. Background swapping is started if the number of free
@@ -38,10 +38,10 @@

I've found that

-# echo 128 256 1024 > /proc/sys/vm/freepages
+# echo "128 256 1024" > /proc/sys/vm/freepages

gives good performance for a 32 Meg system used as a small server and
-personal workstation.
+personal workstation with 2.0.30.

The other three files in /proc/sys/vm are undocumented, as yet.

-- 
Thomas Koenig, Thomas.Koenig@ciw.uni-karlsruhe.de, ig25@dkauni2.bitnet.
The joy of engineering is to find a straight line on a double
logarithmic diagram.