Memory Tuning and Context Switches
Mike Burger
mburger at bubbanfriends.org
Fri Apr 3 18:16:27 UTC 2009
> Hi again,
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> We've just upgraded to 12GB of ram and are still experiencing extremely
> high
> context switches, in some cases, 45000 (vmstat 3 100).
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> Does anyone have a link to a technical doc that has information
> specifically
> dealing with context switching and RAM optimization?
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> I'm thinking that I just need to give more cpu time to kswapd. Comments?
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> Thanks.
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> I've already read this link:
> http://www.redhat.com/magazine/001nov04/features/vm/
> <http://www.redhat.com/magazine/001nov04/features/vm/>
I thought context switching was in the CPU, not memory.
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