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From: scl@unislc.uucp (Sean Landis)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals
Subject: MAXFC, MAXSC
Message-ID: <1991Mar5.202400.19627@unislc.uucp>
Date: 5 Mar 91 20:24:00 GMT
Organization: unisys
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Why do these tunable parameters default to 1?  I can rationalize having
MAXSC low if you have a very slow swap device, but why only free one page
at a time?  Does anyone have the rationalization for these defaults?  What
are the performance implications if they're increased?

Thanks,
Sean