[CentOS] CentOS 3 vs. CentOS 4 Memory Utilization

[Les Mikesell]

William Warren wrote:
> i moved away from Red Hat 2.4x kernels as they have an annoying tendency 
> to swap instead of giving back cache.  I moved to Centos-4 and i have 
> vm.swappiness to zero and am using at most 144K of swap across 5 machines.

Did you see any real-world improvement from this?  The kernel may be 
right in swapping out little-used parts of memory to release RAM for 
something more likely to be active.

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   Les Mikesell
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