[CentOS] Good value for /proc/sys/vm/min_free_kbytes

Thu Dec 7 16:03:54 UTC 2006
Martin Knoblauch <spamtrap at knobisoft.de>

Hi,

 what would be a good value for

/proc/sys/vm/min_free_kbytes

 on a Dual-CPU EM64T System with 8 GB of memory. Kernel is
2.6.9-42.0.3.ELsmp. I know that the default might be a bit low.
Unfortunatelly the documentation is a bit weak in this area.

 We are experiencing responsiveness problems (and higher than expected
load) when the system is under combined memory+network+disk-IO stress.

Thanks
Martin
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