On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 8:27 AM, Ian Chapman <packages@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 29/09/10 22:51, Simon Andrews wrote: > >> That sounds like it might be an answer. ÂIt's a shame there's no way to >> specify this per-process, but this machine does have quite a bit of RAM >> in it, so having this specified as a percentage of RAM might make it >> larger than we'd want. >> >> I'll have a play and see what effect this has. > > No problem, there's also a good page here which explains a bit more how > all this works, as well as some explanation on other tunables that might > suit you better. > > http://www.westnet.com/~gsmith/content/linux-pdflush.htm > > -- If you have a lot of ram you can boot with a kernel flag that specifies a smaller memory resource. OR You can write a program that gobbles a lot of memory (compare malloc(); calloc()). Running a memory hog can trigger IO of dirty pages out to disk or trigger a the high/low water mark used to trigger IO. This works because at the OS level all of free memory can be used by the OS as a buffer of one type or another. The nice thing about a littlepiggie program is that you can run it from user space and also adjust how much memory it grabs and when so you can tune things to your liking. When you kill it you quickly get all the memory back. --     NiftyFedora     T o m M i t c h e l l -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
