I've set swappiness to 5 on three 4.3 servers with current kernel and which each have a lot of memory and I noticed an improvement. I'm pretty tempted to test with 1 as I'd really like the server to swap once it's getting really low on physical memory...but the boss is too cheap to buy another server to test on :P On 6/20/06, William L. Maltby <BillsCentOS at triad.rr.com> wrote: > > 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 > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQBEmDfd/1DcCJj5ZgkRApoNAKCWRjvzby4Fdiv6z2r38P+ck4qo1ACcDV/g > TBVJ1c3xIVZo5Yudu66kLQQ= > =xenh > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > > -- ====================== andre turpin -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20060620/938a62a9/attachment-0005.html>