Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 01 Jun 2004 15:38:38 -0400 | From | Anthony DiSante <> | Subject | Re: swappiness ignored |
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Marc-Christian Petersen wrote: >>In the "why swap at all" thread, there was mention of the >>/proc/sys/vm/swappiness tunable, and some people suggested echoing a zero >>to there if you want to minimize/disable swap usage, or echoing a 100 to >>maximize swap usage, etc. >>But on my 2.6.5 system, I can echo a zero to there, then cat it back to >>make sure... then 30 seconds later cat it again, and it's been changed to >>something else (50, 60, 80something). >>Is this supposed to be a value that can be manually adjusted, as some have >>claimed, or is it something the kernel manages automatically? I definitely >>can't manually set it without having it overwritten shortly thereafter. > > > I bet you have /proc/sys/vm/autoswappiness or the previous version of it > w/o /proc stuff.
Ah, yes, I do, and it's set to one. So if I set that to zero, then the kernel won't automatically adjust /proc/sys/vm/swappiness?
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