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Re: Application load times

To: Matthew Kirkwood <weejock@ferret.lmh.ox.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Application load times
From: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1999 01:19:19 +0100 (BST)
Cc: Emil Briggs <briggs@bucky.physics.ncsu.edu>, linux-mm@kvack.org
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Hi,

On Mon, 31 May 1999 20:33:54 +0100 (GMT), Matthew Kirkwood
<weejock@ferret.lmh.ox.ac.uk> said:

> Drop something bigger into /proc/sys/vm/page-cluster on bootup.

> I don't know how much bigger, but I suspect that 16 or 32 (4k pages)
> should improve matters on a lightly loaded 64Mb machine.

16 is the default.  The /proc number is interpreted as a power-of-two. 

--Stephen
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