10 Feb
2007
10 Feb
'07
3:39 p.m.
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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