Alexander Georgiev wrote: > > There is plenty of free ram, but the kernel prefers to swap unused > pages to disk. And later I have to wait for them to be unswapped, the > Desktop looses its promptness - annoying. > > In win2k and winXP there is a registry key property which prevents > swapping while there is still RAM. > > Do you know whether I can achieve the same in linux? There has been a huge thread concerning this -- maybe even in this list. Use google and look for "swappiness". The place to make the change (temporarily) is: /proc/sys/vm/swappiness To make it permanent, change /etc/sysctl.conf Barry