Subject: Re: 1.6B1 vm.filemin/max really doesn't work
To: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@chylonia.3miasto.net>
From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@wasabisystems.com>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 06/14/2002 20:45:55
The settings work fine for me. Varying them has the effect I would
expect including the performance impact I would expect. I am not sure
you are interpreting the code properly.

Perry

Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@chylonia.3miasto.net> writes:

> >
> > 1) vm.filemin/filemax/execmin/execmax etc. are forced from only one side.
> > i.e. when there's less buffer cache than filemin set active some pages are
> > reactivated.
> 
> it just lacks such operation:
> 
> when trying to allocate page for file I/O check if there is already
> filemax exceeded. if so - deallocate some buffer page. in THAT moment.
> 
> 
> 
> --------------------------------
> Where do you think you go today?
> 
> 

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