http://www.brunolinux.com/06-Fine_Tuning_Your_System/Swappiness.html Johnny Hughes wrote: > 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 > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- My "Foundation" verse: Isa 54:17 No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is of me, saith the LORD. -- carpe ductum -- "Grab the tape" CDTT (Certified Duct Tape Technician) Linux user #322099 Machines: 206822 256638 276825 http://counter.li.org/