Re: mem=16MB laptop testing

Andrew Morton
2003-10-14T12:28:28Z

Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> wrote:
>
>
> > hrm. min_free_kbytes is normally 1024. I'm surprised that the additional
> > 900k made so much difference. We must be on the hairy edge.
> >
> > It looks like we need to precalculate/scale min_free_kbytes, yes?
>
> That would be good for both the low and high end. Id like to see it
> default to something larger on my 16GB+ machines.
>

How big?

I guess it should be scaled by ZONE_DMA+ZONE_NORMAL, skipping ZONE_HIGHMEM.