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Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 11:10:49 -0700
From: "Martin J. Bligh" <Martin.Bligh@us.ibm.com>
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Subject: Re: [BUG] 2.4 VM sucks. Again
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> Also, adjusting the bdflush parms greatly increases stability I've found
> in this respect.

What exactly did you do to them? Can you specify what you're set to
at the moment (and anything you found along the way in tuning)?

> Problem is, my tests are *unofficial* but I plan to do something perhaps
> at OSDL and see what we can show in a max single-box config with real
> hardware, etc. 

Great stuff, I'm very interested in knowing about any problems you find.
We're doing very similar things here, anywhere from 8-32 procs, and
4-32Gb of RAM, both NUMA and SMP.

Thanks,

Martin.