Noise
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“system that is paging is writing selected, infrequently used pages of memory to disk,”
― System Performance Tuning: Help for Unix Administrators
― System Performance Tuning: Help for Unix Administrators
“bias is a compelling figure, while noise is the background to which we pay no attention. That is how we remain largely unaware of a large flaw in our judgment.”
― Noise
― Noise
“Paging is not necessarily indicative of a problem; it is the action of the page scanner to try and increase the size of the free list by moving inactive pages to disk.”
― System Performance Tuning: Help for Unix Administrators
― System Performance Tuning: Help for Unix Administrators
“Highly skilled people are less noisy, and they also show less bias.”
― Noise
― Noise
“kswapd’s behavior is controlled by three parameters, called tries_base, tries_min, and swap_cluster,”
― System Performance Tuning: Help for Unix Administrators
― System Performance Tuning: Help for Unix Administrators
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