On Tue, 2006-06-20 at 13:51 -0400, Barry L. Kline wrote: > 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. > > <snip> Since we are talking desktops now, I'll mention that since I made the adjustments to my node that I mention in the thread Jim mentions, I have not seen more than 160k in swap used. And I did not futz with swappiness or any other parameter. Prior to those changes, under "heavy" load (e.g. multiple browsers for multiple users open, multiple mail sessions (evo and tbird),... I would see severe swap and degradation after a couple of days. Since the changes, in over a week of not rebooting, never more than 160k swapped. I guess I ought to find what it is and get rid of it too, but seems unworthy of the effort. HTH -- Bill -------------- 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/20060620/cf04e0df/attachment-0004.sig>