linux-kernel - Re: kswapd/tg3 issue

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Message-Id: <1164899853.3233.19.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org>
Date:	Thu, 30 Nov 2006 16:17:32 +0100
From:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
To:	Yaroslav Halchenko <yoh@...chology.rutgers.edu>
Cc:	Alan <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: kswapd/tg3 issue

On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 10:10 -0500, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote:
> Thank you Alan
> 
> Ok - I am adding more memory in my purchasing plan ;-) For now I guess
> adding swap space should help, right?


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.

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