On Mon, 28 Jul 2003, Sarah Clatterbuck wrote: > Right now we have a media application that is streaming data to a Linux > NFS server. The NFS server is running 2.4.20-8smp (RedHat 9). > Finally, the question. The new VM system does not use ndirty. Is there > a way in 2.4.20 to achieve the same effect as lowering this parameter? You could try the kernel from the recent Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 beta release. It is compatible with Red Hat 9, but has some enhancements in the VM department. You could also just grab 2.4 + latest rmap patch, but then you would lose NPTL and some other things that are only easily available in the RH kernel... success, Rik -- "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
