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From: Bernd Eckenfels <ecki@lina.inka.de>
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Subject: Re: VM tuning for Linux routers
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In article <20011118145400.A23181@se1.cogenit.fr> you wrote:
>> You can increase the reserved free memory (not sure where to do this in
> This reserve isn't dedicated to networking alas.

But it is for atomic kernel memory requests, which happen to be caused by
Interrupt handlers. On a Network loaded Box most of them are from the NICs.

Greetings
Bernd
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