[Centos] Re: kernel question
Bart Schaefer
schaefer+centos at zanshin.comTue Sep 21 18:26:26 UTC 2004
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William Warren wrote: > An interesting bug in RHEL 3(which affects CentOS 3) has been > bantered around for a while. There are some kernel > patches(beyond my scope right now) or some echo statements tht > are used(this helped my situation). > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=89226 I don't have any direct feedback on Warren's [not excerpted] question about using other kernels, but I have some feedback on the echo statements that he mentions. I had been noticing that memory-intensive apps such as Mozilla were taking a very long time to swap back in after having been idle overnight -- more than a couple of minutes, often, when I would switch desktops for the first time each day to the one where I keep Moz running, before the window would refresh. Scanning through the bugzilla report, I saw the kernel patch that changes the vm.pagecache defaults. So I executed echo "1 5 10" > /proc/sys/vm/pagecache My applications are now MUCH more responsive; there's never a delay before the Mozilla window refreshes, and VMware works noticeably better. If you are running CentOS 3.1 or RHEL3, you might want to try this, even if you aren't seeing serious problems with swapping. This brings me to two questions: (1) Is the aforementioned kernel patch already present in the CentOS-3.3 kernels? (2) (Somwhat OT) Is there an equivalent pagecache tweak for RedHat 9? The /proc/sys/vm/pagecache "device" is not present in RH9.
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