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authorantrik <antrik@users.sf.net>2008-04-01 19:54:00 +0200
committerantrik <antrik@users.sf.net>2008-04-01 19:55:03 +0200
commit8a0c53fd2fbd7b3124d5e961882e9cb10f078cbe (patch)
treeaf5379047cd139909dcc8ae6168a3d1cdf4e45af
parent6c076a050e2ae55a4f272e9bd995efc265f32f7d (diff)
(VM tuning) Add link
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@@ -526,7 +526,8 @@ system. Some of the problems are inherent to the system design (the kernel
can't distinguish between important application data and discardable disk
buffers for example), and can't be fixed without fundamental changes. Other
problems however are an ordinary lack of optimisation, like extremely crude
-heuristics when to start paging. Many parameters are based on assumptions from
+heuristics when to start paging. (See <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2007-08/msg00034.html> for example.)
+Many parameters are based on assumptions from
a time when typical machines had like 16 MiB of RAM, or simply have been set to
arbitrary values and never tuned for actual use.