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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