Rodrigo Barbosa wrote: >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >Hash: SHA1 > >On Mon, Jun 05, 2006 at 02:01:52PM -0600, Joshua Gimer wrote: > > >>On 6/5/06, Max H. <btmanmeh at verizon.net> wrote: >> Kai Schaetzl wrote: >> > where do you set "swappiness"? >> >> Echo a value 0 to 100 into /proc/sys/vm/swappiness. >> >> Higher the number, more swap. >> >> Here's an interesting argument from some kernel developers: >> >> <http://kerneltrap.org/node/3000> >> >>I would at least keep a little bit of swap space. If you were to ever run out >>of physical memory it WILL cause a kernel panic. Just a suggestion. >> >> > >And that is why we are suggesting changing swappiness instead of >turning of swap. > > I assume then, with swappiness set to 0, *if* the system does happen to need some extra pages, then it *will* go into swap, but only if all memory is exhausted? Zat sound right? -- 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