There were a whole bunch of tuning parameters in the VM in 2.2 that got
dropped in 2.4; maybe re-instating some of them and returning them to their
rightful owner, the system administrator, would solve this problem once and
for all. But for some reason, those who control Linux have decided that this
is "a bug in the VM" and pursued fixes in code and the associated logic
rather than give us sysadmins what I believe is rightfully ours. I request
such tuning parameters at least once a week here, and get ignored. I'll keep
asking until I know enough about the code to put them in myself, assuming no
one has broken down and admitted that someone who's been performance tuning
operating systems since 1974 just might know what he's talking about :)).
Anyone else want to share my soapbox??? :))
-- M. Edward Boraskyznmeb@borasky-research.net http://www.borasky-research.net
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