On Mon, 7 Jan 2002, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> On January 7, 2002 05:06 pm, Alan Cox wrote:
> > You can make it right for most people but the last few percent you
> > will always get by tuning knobs - either directly or via GUI tools like
> > powertweak
>
> Except, as you and others have pointed out, we are far from knowing what the
> knobs should be.
Hauling out my Gilbert and Sullivan: "I've got a little list" :-)
1. The time slice. Currently this is a #define. Make it a variable and
give me a sysctl to set it.
2. The processor change penalty in the scheduler. Again a #define. Make
it a variable and give me a sysctl to set it.
3. The "memory map" change penalty in the scheduler. Currently
hard-coded to 1 in "sched.c". Make it a variable and give me a sysctl to
set it.
4. The DMA, lowmem and highmem balance ratios and maxima in
"page_alloc.c". Currently these are hard coded. From the code, it looks
like the values I *really* want to change, the watermarks for each zone,
are computed at boot time and can't be changed once the system boots.
But I'd like to be able to change the watermarks at run time if at all
possible.
5. The minimum and maximum fraction of memory that can be allocated to
page cache for each zone.
-- M. Edward "Lord High Executioner" Boraskyznmeb@borasky-research.net http://www.borasky-research.net http://groups.yahoo.com/group/meta-trading-coach
How to Stop A Folksinger Cold # 5 "Where have all the flowers gone..." Beats me.
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