Re: for swap only? /proc/sys/vm/pages_cluster

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Mulyadi Santosa <mulyadi.santosa@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 9:51 PM, Ed Cashin<ecashin@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> The way I read the Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt and
>> mm/swapfile.c in 2.6.16.62, it looks like /proc/sys/vm/pages_cluster
>> has nothing to do with non-swap paging but is only used in swapfile.c.
>>
>> So in a system without any swap in use, changing the setting would
>> have no effect.
>>
>> Is that correct?
...
> perhaps a small note first. In 2.6.30.4 source tree, the related
> documentation is in Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt.
>
> And yeap, I think the sentences are quite clear there. It only matters
> if you have swap, be it swap partition or swap file.

Thanks.  I think that text is the same as the 2.6.16.y
Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt info for page-cluster (not
pages-cluster as I mistakenly called it in the original post.)

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