Les Mikesell wrote: > On Mon, 2006-06-05 at 17:00 -0400, William L. Maltby wrote: > >> I can't resist. Read the thread that was pointed to on lkml. ROTFLMAO. >> >> *Real* UNIX addressed these problems long ago. I guess the "Gurus" >> suffer from NIH (Not Invented Here) syndrome. >> >> Given a "general purpose" system, tunability is a must. UNIX, as >> delivered by USL in such examples as Sys V, had tunables that let admins >> tune to their needs. A single "swappiness" value is woefully inadequate. >> > > Actually, having these computed dynamically is much better than > having to manually tune them every time your mix of programs > change or you add memory except in some very unusual circumstances > like a server that does a single job forever. In the general > case consider whether you'd rather hire an expert admin to > keep your system tuned or buy an extra gig of ram and let the > OS figure out how to use it. > Well, technology marches on. These days, it's extremely cheap to throw hardware at the problem. It really wasn't that long ago that a gig of RAM would have cost a month or two (or more) of a typical admin's salary. :-) Cheers,