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Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2001 14:04:21 -0800 (PST)
From: "Mr. James W. Laferriere" <babydr@baby-dragons.com>
To: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
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Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.1-ac7
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	Hello Rik , As an aside to the below conversation .
	Is there a URL/doc/... that gives basic tuning examples
	for various types workloads ?   Tia ,  JimL

On Sat, 10 Feb 2001, Rik van Riel wrote:
 ...snip...
> > It's still reluctant to shrink cache.  I'm hitting I/O saturation
> > at 20 jobs vs 30 with ac5.  (difference seems to be the delta in
> > space taken by cache.. ~same space shows as additional swap volume).
>
> Indeed, to "fix" that we'll need to work at refill_inactive().
>
> However, I am very much against tuning the VM for one particular
> workload. If you can show me that this problem also happens under
> other workloads we can work at changing it, but I don't think it's
 ...snip...
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