20 Jun
2006
20 Jun
'06
5:51 p.m.
Alexander Georgiev wrote:
There is plenty of free ram, but the kernel prefers to swap unused pages to disk. And later I have to wait for them to be unswapped, the Desktop looses its promptness - annoying.
In win2k and winXP there is a registry key property which prevents swapping while there is still RAM.
Do you know whether I can achieve the same in linux?
There has been a huge thread concerning this -- maybe even in this list. Use google and look for "swappiness".
The place to make the change (temporarily) is:
/proc/sys/vm/swappiness
To make it permanent, change /etc/sysctl.conf
Barry