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Linux-2.4.1-pre11 / ll_rw_b watermark metric?

DISCUSSION Dieter N�tzel 2 participants 3 messages Jan 29, 2001

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I have pre11 running with Andrea's suggested fix.

        high_queued_sectors = total_ram / 3;
        low_queued_sectors = high_queued_sectors / 2;
        if (low_queued_sectors < 0)
                low_queued_sectors = total_ram / 2;
 
        /*
         * for big RAM machines (>= 384MB), use more for I/O
         */
        /*
        if (total_ram >= MB(384)) {
                high_queued_sectors = (total_ram * 4) / 5;
                low_queued_sectors = high_queued_sectors - MB(128);
        }
        */

Shouldn't it be clean for a 2.4.1 release?

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Quoted 17 lines · Dieter Nützel

I have pre11 running with Andrea's suggested fix.

        high_queued_sectors = total_ram / 3;
        low_queued_sectors = high_queued_sectors / 2;
        if (low_queued_sectors < 0)
                low_queued_sectors = total_ram / 2;
 
        /*
         * for big RAM machines (>= 384MB), use more for I/O
         */
        /*
        if (total_ram >= MB(384)) {
                high_queued_sectors = (total_ram * 4) / 5;
                low_queued_sectors = high_queued_sectors - MB(128);
        }
        */
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Shouldn't it be clean for a 2.4.1 release?

With enough swap the numbers I saw were not conclusive. I promised to test which I haven't gotten done yet, I will do this tomorrow and make sure we have the right ratios. However, I don't think the pre11 numbers are much off - do you have any results?

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Am Montag, 29. Januar 2001 04:46 schrieb Jens Axboe:

Quoted 18 lines · Dieter Nützel
Quoted 17 lines

I have pre11 running with Andrea's suggested fix.

        high_queued_sectors = total_ram / 3;
        low_queued_sectors = high_queued_sectors / 2;
        if (low_queued_sectors < 0)
                low_queued_sectors = total_ram / 2;

        /*
         * for big RAM machines (>= 384MB), use more for I/O
         */
        /*
        if (total_ram >= MB(384)) {
                high_queued_sectors = (total_ram * 4) / 5;
                low_queued_sectors = high_queued_sectors - MB(128);
        }
        */
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Quoted 1 line

Shouldn't it be clean for a 2.4.1 release?

With enough swap the numbers I saw were not conclusive. I promised to test which I haven't gotten done yet, I will do this tomorrow and make sure we have the right ratios. However, I don't think the pre11 numbers are much off - do you have any results?

I have 256 MB RAM and 200 MB swap but nothing of the later was used during "dbench 48". It was nothing spectacular but a litte bit faster with the above.
Attention: Results only from memory...;-)

Good night.
Dieter
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