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On Mon, Jun 05, 2006 at 04:55:54PM -0400, Max H. wrote:
Rodrigo Barbosa wrote:
It is kind of interesting, but I never noticed much difference from the default value (thats 60, by the way) until I set swappiness to 0. The difference between 10 and 60 is barely noticeable, tho. You are right on that regard.
I have 768MB on my laptop, and I really use it. Meaning spamd, mysql, firefox, openoffice and some nuts and bolts.
I have a ton of stuff running too, I just never seem to fill up memory.
I'll have to give it a shot with setting it at 0 once. Like you said, I tried it at 10 and 80, figuring that it wouldn't be much more different from 0 to 10. 80 was the last setting I had it on, I must never have put 60 to default.
Another important thing I noticed.
If you keep rebooting/powering your machine every day, you will notice almost no difference. But leave it on for a couple of days, and you will see something. Specially after all those crazy prelink cron jobs run.
- -- Rodrigo Barbosa rodrigob@suespammers.org "Quid quid Latine dictum sit, altum viditur" "Be excellent to each other ..." - Bill & Ted (Wyld Stallyns)