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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Ethernet bridge performance
Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2003 12:58:28 -0700
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On Thu, 07 Aug 2003 12:50:53 -0700
Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com> wrote:

> David S. Miller wrote:
> > In 2.6.x, play with /proc/sys/vm/min_free_kbytes
> 
> Anything to set for 2.4?  I've looked for how to tune the 2.4 VM for
> some time, but never found anything.

Good question.  Nothing exists there.

The per-zone ->pages_min value is what is controlled by this
settting.  It should be easy to backport the 2.6.x sysctl to
2.4.x, even for an amateur :-)