On Sat, Jun 19, 1999 at 07:21:52PM -0400, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > I can implement numbers 1.1, 1.4, and 2 right away. What I would like > is concrete advice, backed up by reasoning, for how to set or adjust > these paging parameters. The existing ones are specified at the front > of mach/vm/vm_pageout.c.
Thomas, it seems that part of the problem is that it's easy to set these parameters and ignore - Is it efficient to calculate them per machine at loadtime? Say, make it a function of CPU speed and total RAM. One of the frequent emails that I see on help-hurd is the cry of "It won't run on my 386 with 4 MB RAM" - Obviously other things are involved in making that happen, but it would be nice if we could produce a paging formula that accomidated different machines (IA32, non-IA32, fast, slow, etc...). Tks, Jeff Bailey -- I'm not a vegetarian because I love animals, I'm a vegetarian because I hate plants.
