Tuning memory usage

[Bruce O'Neel]

Hi,

Is it possible that the correct sysctl is vm.dmmax?  On my system
this is set to 32.

Thanks.

cheers

bruce

On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 06:42:33AM +0000, Bruce O'Neel wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a normally unloaded 5.4-release systems with 256 meg of memory
> and 2 CPUs.  Every 20 mins a job starts that runs 1 process per CPU,
> so 2 in this case. Each process gets SIZE to 130 meg or so, but, RES
> never climbs above 32meg or so.
> 
> While running, top shows 34 meg buffer and 12 meg cache.
> 
> Oddly enough when I only run one of the two processes the RES size
> still doesn't climb above 32meg or so.
> 
> Is there some setting to let RES get bigger?  I would help with these
> jobs.
> 
> I realize, of course, the more memory would help the problem.  I'm just
> waiting for ebay.ch to have something sensible.
> 
> cheers
> 
> bruce
> 
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