Re: kswapd/tg3 issue

On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 10:10 -0500, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote:
Thank you Alan

Ok - I am adding more memory in my purchasing plan ;-) For now I guess
adding swap space should help, right?


actually since this was networking...
you probably should bump the value in

/proc/sys/vm/min_free_kbytes

a bit (like by 50%); that makes the kernel keep a bigger pool free for
emergencies/spikes...

That might be enough already if your system isn't swapping a whole lot.

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