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 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20051214/3888c523/attachment-0005.sig>