On 29/09/10 22:51, Simon Andrews wrote:
That sounds like it might be an answer. It's a shame there's
no way to
specify this per-process, but this machine does have quite a bit of RAM
in it, so having this specified as a percentage of RAM might make it
larger than we'd want.
I'll have a play and see what effect this has.
No problem, there's also a good page here which explains a bit more how
all this works, as well as some explanation on other tunables that might
suit you better.
http://www.westnet.com/~gsmith/content/linux-pdflush.htm
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Ian Chapman.