
164 HA Architectures & Capacity Planning with WebSphere Remote Server V6
Configuring the kswapd daemon to specify how many pages of memory are
paged out by Linux. Use the following command to perform this task:
sysctl -w vm.kswapd="1024 32 64"
The kswapd daemon has three parameters:
– tries_base is four times the number of pages the kernel swaps in one
pass. On a system with a lot of swapping, increasing the number may
improve performance.
– tries_min is the minimum number of pages that kswapd swaps out each
time the daemon is called.
– swap_cluster is the number of pages kswapd writes at once. A smaller
number increases the number of disk I/Os ...