-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEhJ4tpdyWzQ5b5ckRAjqlAJ9wdBL7sUL1tixmzVJBbm5+IHHZIwCePdFv ZeAWti+JPdYA4tlm60nYUq0= =uLw0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----