On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 9:51 PM, Ed Cashin<[email protected]> wrote:
> The way I read the Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt and
> mm/swapfile.c in 2.6.16.62, it looks like /proc/sys/vm/pages_cluster
> has nothing to do with non-swap paging but is only used in swapfile.c.
>
> So in a system without any swap in use, changing the setting would
> have no effect.
>
> Is that correct?
>
> --
>  Ed Cashin <[email protected]>
>  http://noserose.net/e/

perhaps a small note first. In 2.6.30.4 source tree, the related
documentation is in Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt.

And yeap, I think the sentences are quite clear there. It only matters
if you have swap, be it swap partition or swap file.

-- 
regards,

Mulyadi Santosa
Freelance Linux trainer
blog: the-hydra.blogspot.com

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