latest RPM has max-heap defined

Stephen Weeks MLton@sourcelight.com
Sun, 24 Jun 2001 15:35:22 -0700


> In  the  latest RPMs, the max-heap is still set.  You said in your mail about
> the last time I asked that you did it so that your  machine  doesn't  thrash.
> Is  it  thrashing  only  because you are running other big things on it? 

Pretty much.

> The
> thresholds should be set so that the default max-heap is ok  unless  you  are
> running  other  big stuff (in which case you have to manually set it smaller)
> or you are so desperate that you are willing to swap (in which case you  have
~<> to  manually  set  it  larger).   If the current default isn't right, then we
> should tweak it.  I remember we had to do this in the change to  2.2  because
> the  2.0  level  was  a  bit too large for 2.2 since it had gotten a bit more
> aggressive about swapping early.

I am still seeing some thrashing with RAMslop = 0.85, but I don't think it's bad
enough to cut it down more for 2.4 kernels.  I am willing to, though, if you
observe otherwise.