[CentOS] Swap

Rodrigo Barbosa rodrigob at suespammers.org
Mon Jun 5 21:12:13 UTC 2006


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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 at suespammers.org>
"Quid quid Latine dictum sit, altum viditur"
"Be excellent to each other ..." - Bill & Ted (Wyld Stallyns)

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