[Pan-users] Re: tasks-nzb-delay

[Duncan]

Ron Johnson <address@hidden> posted
address@hidden, excerpted below, on  Sun, 12 Jul 2009 22:09:25
-0500:

> Anyhoo, bumping it up to 90 has really boosted pan's effective
> throughput.

FWIW, you may wish to put those other things, vm.dirty_*, back at the 
defaults now, or otherwise set them, anyway. 

Remember, those ratios were designed before gigs of memory was common.  
So while 10 seconds is better than 5 for me when the system's mostly idle 
anyway, if there's significant write activity, I want it to start low 
priority writing before the backlog gets as high as the default 5% RAM.  
So here, I set 2%, of 8 gig, so ~160 MB.

Thus my writeback is 1000 centisecs (10 seconds) while my 
background_ratio is 2% (with 8 gig RAM, ~160 meg).  The others
remain at defaults. Now that tasks.nzb is out of the way,
see if that works better for you, too.

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