Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030478AbWK3P2x (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Nov 2006 10:28:53 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030499AbWK3P2x (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Nov 2006 10:28:53 -0500 Received: from washoe.rutgers.edu ([165.230.95.67]:38303 "EHLO washoe.rutgers.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030478AbWK3P2w (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Nov 2006 10:28:52 -0500 Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 10:28:51 -0500 From: Yaroslav Halchenko To: linux kernel mailing list Subject: Re: kswapd/tg3 issue Message-ID: <20061130152851.GN2021@washoe.onerussian.com> Mail-Followup-To: linux kernel mailing list References: <20061130144355.GK2021@washoe.onerussian.com> <20061130150406.3d0b6afd@localhost.localdomain> <20061130151003.GM2021@washoe.onerussian.com> <1164899853.3233.19.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1164899853.3233.19.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> X-URL: http://www.onerussian.com X-Image-Url: http://www.onerussian.com/img/yoh.png X-PGP-Key: http://www.onerussian.com/gpg-yoh.asc X-fingerprint: 3BB6 E124 0643 A615 6F00 6854 8D11 4563 75C0 24C8 User-Agent: mutt-ng/devel-r804 (Debian) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1150 Lines: 31 Thank you Arjan for advice I had 5746, made it 8619. Is that a good practice in general to have that value higher for a server with lots of I/O including networking? (there is a RAID on that system and 2 bonded gigabit interfaces) Is there any heuristic to decide on that value ? On Thu, 30 Nov 2006, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > >...< > actually since this was networking... > you probably should bump the value in > /proc/sys/vm/min_free_kbytes > a bit (like by 50%); that makes the kernel keep a bigger pool free for > emergencies/spikes... > That might be enough already if your system isn't swapping a whole lot. -- Yaroslav Halchenko Research Assistant, Psychology Department, Rutgers-Newark Student Ph.D. @ CS Dept. NJIT Office: (973) 353-5440x263 | FWD: 82823 | Fax: (973) 353-1171 101 Warren Str, Smith Hall, Rm 4-105, Newark NJ 07102 WWW: http://www.linkedin.com/in/yarik - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/