Kai Schaetzl wrote: >Rodrigo Barbosa wrote on Mon, 5 Jun 2006 15:37:26 -0300: > > > >>I keep my swap on, but set swappiness to 0. Been working great that way. >> >> > >where do you set "swappiness"? > > > >>PS: I really wish people would stop top-posting. >> >> >>Actually, if someone doesn't trim the quote I *much* prefer top-posting >>over endlessly scrolling to the end for reading a single sentence or two. >> >>Kai >> >> >> 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. -- Sam W.Drinkard -- sam at wa4phy.net http://wa4phy.net Augusta Area Mesonet cell 706.825.8513 Home 706.868.7253 MAIL 4428 Branchwood Drive, Martinez Georgia, 30907-1304