On Wed, 2005-12-14 at 08:49 -0600, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
William Warren wrote:
set swappiness to zero. That will force the machine to use all
physical ram before swapping for the most part. Also i have heard
that xorg has a memory leak. I do not know if that has been addressed
yet and that could be the cause of your issue.
Could you elaborate on that (swappiness) just a bit :-) ? Is this a
generic Linux setting, or RH/CentOS specific ? TIA
A memory leak *WOULD* cause this kind of thing. SGI had such a problem a
few years back in some version or other of their (released) IRIX OS, &
X.org just got back into the game, so that's fairly plausible as well.
swappiness is a 2.6 kernel setting that allows you to change the
behavior of swap memory.
There are a couple good links in this article:
http://kerneltrap.org/node/3202?from=150&comments_per_page=50