linux-kernel - Re: kswapd/tg3 issue

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Message-ID: <20061130152851.GN2021@washoe.onerussian.com>
Date:	Thu, 30 Nov 2006 10:28:51 -0500
From:	Yaroslav Halchenko <yoh@...chology.rutgers.edu>
To:	linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: kswapd/tg3 issue

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.
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