NFS Buffering

[Simon Andrews]

On 29/09/2010 16:27, Ian Chapman wrote:
> On 29/09/10 22:51, Simon Andrews wrote:
>
>> That sounds like it might be an answer.  It's a shame there's no way to
>> specify this per-process, but this machine does have quite a bit of RAM
>> in it, so having this specified as a percentage of RAM might make it
>> larger than we'd want.
>>
>> I'll have a play and see what effect this has.
>
> No problem, there's also a good page here which explains a bit more how
> all this works, as well as some explanation on other tunables that might
> suit you better.
>
> http://www.westnet.com/~gsmith/content/linux-pdflush.htm

Thanks, that's really helpful.