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On Apr 6, 2010, at 7:16 AM, Mel Gorman wrote:

>=20
> Does this clarify why min_free_kbytes helps and why the "recommended"
> value is what it is?

Thanks, this is really helpful.   I wonder if it might be a good idea to =
have a boot command-line option which automatically sets =
vm.min_free_kbytes to the right value?   Most administrators who are =
used to using hugepages, are most familiar with needing to set boot =
command-line options, and this way they won't need to try to find this =
new userspace utility.   I was looking for hugeadm on Ubuntu, for =
example, and I couldn't find it.

Regards,

-- Ted

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