On Mon, 2003-08-04 at 17:50, Andrew Smith wrote: > Rick Warner said: > > > > <snip> > > > The handling of the filesystem in Netware is probably still among the > > best for performance of any alternative. Using all free memory for file > > cache along with hashing and the elevator seeks really ramps up the > > performance. At some point in time it would be great if all that stuff > > got rev'd into some OSS offering. > > Ah - so now I know who to blame for this PITA idea in Linux :-) Actually a very good idea. Why have RAM sitting unused? > Every morning when I sit down in front of my RH desktop, it spends > a few minutes swapping each desktop app I use back into memory, so > I've finally got to the stage where I just click on a few things > and walk away and come back later! Try this: As root, run: /sbin/sysctl -w vm.bdflush="30 500 0 0 2560 15360 60 20 0" and add this line to /etc/sysctl.conf: vm.bdflush="30 500 0 0 2560 15360 60 20 0" Regards, -- Cliff Wells, Software Engineer Logiplex Corporation (www.logiplex.net) (503) 978-6726 (800) 735-0555 -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
