Mulyadi Santosa <[email protected]> writes: > 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? ... > 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.
Thanks. I think that text is the same as the 2.6.16.y Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt info for page-cluster (not pages-cluster as I mistakenly called it in the original post.) -- Ed Cashin <[email protected]> Find experimental aoe Linux driver patches at http://coraid.typepad.com/aoe_linux_proving_grounds/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to [email protected] Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
