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

From: Andi Kleen (ak@suse.de)
Date: Sun Sep 17 2000 - 14:03:45 EDT

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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 ?

-Andi

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