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From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
To: Yaroslav Halchenko <yoh@psychology.rutgers.edu>
Cc: Alan <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: kswapd/tg3 issue
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 16:17:32 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1164899853.3233.19.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061130151003.GM2021@washoe.onerussian.com>

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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  reply	other threads:[~2006-11-30 15:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-11-30 14:43 kswapd/tg3 issue Yaroslav Halchenko
2006-11-30 15:04 ` Alan
2006-11-30 15:10   ` Yaroslav Halchenko
2006-11-30 15:17     ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2006-11-30 15:28       ` Yaroslav Halchenko
2006-11-30 15:39     ` Alan
2006-11-30 15:45       ` Avi Kivity
2006-11-30 16:28         ` Yaroslav Halchenko
2006-12-01  6:19   ` Herbert Xu
2006-12-01 14:08     ` Yaroslav Halchenko

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