Re: /proc/sys/vm/(max|min)-readahead effect????

[Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk]

> > I've got a lot of memory (some 380 megs), but what is VM pressure?
>
> VM pressure means that there is not enough free memory on the system...
> Allocators have to reclaim memory.

There's more than enough memory on the system, as far as I can see

[root@linuxserver ext2]# free
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:        381500     378136       3364          0       3552     333348
-/+ buffers/cache:      41236     340264
Swap:       522104      11440     510664

> Basically you cannot simply expect an increase in readahead size to
> increase performance:
>
> 1) The files you created may not be sequential

Beleive me - they are! Created with 'dd' secuentially

> 2) The lack of memory on the system may be interfering in weird ways, and
> maybe _INCREASING_ the readahead may decrease performance.

Anyway - I beleive I should have seen some change by trying virtually any
value from 31 to 4095.

If the readahead is what I beleive it is, It'll read further out in the
file when a request comes. It looks like either this never happens, or the
next request doesn't 'know' how much is cached.

roy

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