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maxsc

Description

The maxsc parameter specifies the maximum number of pages that may be swapped by the vhand daemon in a single operation. When the paging daemon starts tossing pages, it collects pages that must be written out to swap space before they are actually swapped and then freed into the general page pool. It collects at most maxsc pages at a time before swapping them out.

This parameter is specified in /var/sysgen/mtune.

Value

Default: 100

Range: 8-100

When to Change


You may want to decrease this parameter on systems that are swapping over NFS (Network File System). This is always the case for diskless systems to increase performance.

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