> Unfortunately, it's not clear if "max" is the percentage of total memory
> or memory left.
It's the percentage of total memory.
> At any rate, if you set the max percentage on both lower, they should
> use less memory for cacheing overall; I don't know what would be
> optimum for different amounts of memory/type of load on the system.
Optimally, the borrow percent should be all that's needed :)
I'm working on it (as soon as I've dug through the mail).
> Maybe someone on the mm team (Rik?) could give some tips?
Well, I wrote the documentation... It's just unfortunate
that people don't give me feedback and go frustrate
themselves with any questions remaining :-)
<RANT>
This is the _second_ (IIRC) piece of feedback I've seen
on the documentation, and it wasn't even addressed to
me...
Now, how am I supposed to fix the documentation?
</RANT>
Rik.
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