> On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 10:50 +0100, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > > ...add more memory and disk space. On 28.02 15:37, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > Not an option unfortunately > > > I haven't seen his cache_mem > > cache_mem used to be at 32MB (because I wantted to save on Bandwidth, > but I've since lowered it down to 4MB default due to me now wanting > more speed increase instead lower cache_mem means more disk cache to your OS. However bigger cache_mem means more memory hits, which might speed up the machine. > > and memory usage, but maybe using more than one GB for disk cache would > > help a bit without machine starting to swap... > > The rest are really default values. I didn't change anything else try using more disk space > > But as long as the question was what to do "besides the hardware"... > > > > Also: What replacement policy do you (Ow Mun Heng) use? I use heap LFUDA for > > disk objects and heap GSDF for memory cache. LFUDA gave me 2% better byte > > radio and GSDF 2% better hit ratio IIRC. > > default, which would mean LRU. heap methods should be faster and more effective. -- Matus UHLAR - fantomas, uhlar@xxxxxxxxxxx ; http://www.fantomas.sk/ Warning: I wish NOT to receive e-mail advertising to this address. Varovanie: na tuto adresu chcem NEDOSTAVAT akukolvek reklamnu postu. "They say when you play that M$ CD backward you can hear satanic messages." "That's nothing. If you play it forward it will install Windows."