[CentOS] Swap

[Sam Drinkard]

Kai Schaetzl wrote:

>Rodrigo Barbosa wrote on Mon, 5 Jun 2006 15:37:26 -0300:
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>>I keep my swap on, but set swappiness to 0. Been working great that way. 
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>where do you set "swappiness"?
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>>PS: I really wish people would stop top-posting.
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>>Actually, if someone doesn't trim the quote I *much* prefer top-posting 
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>>Kai
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 From what I gather from man swapon, the priority is a value between 0 
and 32767, but which field in the /etc/fstab is the "options" field? 

/dev/hda5   swap   swap   defaults   0 0
LABEL=SWAP-hdb7   swap   swap   defaults   0 0

Which one do you add the pri=0 to set the swappiness ?

OTOH, if you turn swap completely off and the system needs more memory 
than is available, I would assume a kernel panic would ensue at that 
point, or something would die.  Just guessing on that part. 

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