Index: linux+rhel4+chaos/mm/page_alloc.c
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--- linux+rhel4+chaos.orig/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ linux+rhel4+chaos/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -1972,8 +1972,12 @@ static void setup_per_zone_pages_min(voi
 			                   lowmem_pages;
 		}
 
-		zone->pages_low = zone->pages_min * 2;
-		zone->pages_high = zone->pages_min * 3;
+		/*
+		 * When interpreting these watermarks, just keep in mind that:
+		 * zone->pages_min == (zone->pages_min * 4) / 4;
+		 */
+		zone->pages_low  = (zone->pages_min * 5) / 4;
+		zone->pages_high = (zone->pages_min * 6) / 4;
 		spin_unlock_irqrestore(&zone->lru_lock, flags);
 	}
 }
@@ -1982,24 +1986,25 @@ static void setup_per_zone_pages_min(voi
  * Initialise min_free_kbytes.
  *
  * For small machines we want it small (128k min).  For large machines
- * we want it large (16MB max).  But it is not linear, because network
+ * we want it large (64MB max).  But it is not linear, because network
  * bandwidth does not increase linearly with machine size.  We use
  *
- *	min_free_kbytes = sqrt(lowmem_kbytes)
+ *	min_free_kbytes = 4 * sqrt(lowmem_kbytes), for better accuracy
+ *  min_free_kbytes = sqrt(lowmem_kbytes * 16) 
  *
  * which yields
  *
- * 16MB:	128k
- * 32MB:	181k
- * 64MB:	256k
- * 128MB:	362k
- * 256MB:	512k
- * 512MB:	724k
- * 1024MB:	1024k
- * 2048MB:	1448k
- * 4096MB:	2048k
- * 8192MB:	2896k
- * 16384MB:	4096k
+ * 16MB:	512k
+ * 32MB:	724k
+ * 64MB:	1024k
+ * 128MB:	1448k
+ * 256MB:	2048k
+ * 512MB:	2896k
+ * 1024MB:	4096k
+ * 2048MB:	5792k
+ * 4096MB:	8192k
+ * 8192MB:	11584k
+ * 16384MB:	16384k
  */
 static int __init init_per_zone_pages_min(void)
 {
@@ -2007,11 +2012,11 @@ static int __init init_per_zone_pages_mi
 
 	lowmem_kbytes = nr_free_buffer_pages() * (PAGE_SIZE >> 10);
 
-	min_free_kbytes = int_sqrt(lowmem_kbytes);
+	min_free_kbytes = int_sqrt(lowmem_kbytes * 16);
 	if (min_free_kbytes < 128)
 		min_free_kbytes = 128;
-	if (min_free_kbytes > 16384)
-		min_free_kbytes = 16384;
+	if (min_free_kbytes > 65536)
+		min_free_kbytes = 65536;
 	setup_per_zone_pages_min();
 	setup_per_zone_protection();
 	return 0;