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Re: MEMORY leakage

From: Steve Rospo <srospo_at_watchmark.com>
Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2004 14:59:01 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0409091308250.21145-100000@sapphire.wa.watchmark.com>

On Thu, 9 Sep 2004 J.Velikanovs_at_alise.lv wrote:

> Dinesh,
> I would like to recommend you to read this paper:
> http://www.sun.com/sun-on-net/performance/vmsizing.pdf
>

In particular read up on file system buffering and forcedirectio (pg 95). We found a huge performance gain on Solaris 2.6 by enabling forcedirectio and priority paging. Post-2.6 priority paging isn't needed but the reduced CPU demands of forceddirectio is very noticeable.

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