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

From: Rik van Riel (riel@conectiva.com.br)
Date: Sun Sep 17 2000 - 14:53:47 EDT

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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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