On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 11:28, David Gwynne wrote: >> if you're interested in seeing the effect of freeing at different >> intervals, you could try the diff below. it adds kern.pool.wait_free >> and kern.pool.wait_gc tunables so you can set how long a page has >> to be idle before a pool_put and the gc respectively will select a >> page for freeing. >> >> id prefer to pick values that Just Work(tm) all the time, but being >> able to test different values easily might be useful in the short >> term. > > ive been running the diff below in production for nearly a month now > without issue. > > anyone want to ok this? if i commit this would anyone object?
I thought the sysctl code was ok for testing, but not for commit. I don't think we should be adding more knobs like this. A diff without that would be much more attractive.
