Subject: Re: Interactive responsiveness under heavy I/O load
To: MLH <mlh@goathill.org>
From: Thor Lancelot Simon <tls@rek.tjls.com>
List: tech-perform
Date: 01/26/2004 23:39:07
On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 09:40:11PM -0600, MLH wrote:
>
> vm.bufcache = 30

Unless you increased vm.bufcache, this kernel's from the few days in which
the backpressure mechanism on the buffer cache was, basically, _completely_
broken.  You probably want to upgrade and try again.

-- 
 Thor Lancelot Simon	                                      tls@rek.tjls.com
   But as he knew no bad language, he had called him all the names of common
 objects that he could think of, and had screamed: "You lamp!  You towel!  You
 plate!" and so on.              --Sigmund Freud