Subject: Re: tuning for small memory machines
To: Brian Chase <vaxzilla@jarai.org>
From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
List: tech-perform
Date: 11/30/2002 02:25:18
Brian Chase <vaxzilla@jarai.org> writes:
> So somewhere between Simon Burge's 8MB pc532 and my 16MB VAX, there's a
> zone where increasing anonmax can be useful.  I really don't have a very
> good idea of what anonmax does yet,

Anonmax/min sets the maximum/minimum amount of physical memory that can be used
for program data. execmax/min covers program binaries, filemin/max
covers file buffer space.

Generally, you want to tune the three so that you minimize disk
i/o. Trial and error seem to work best -- the right numbers are highly
dependent on job mix.

Perry