| Date | Tue, 01 Jun 2004 03:23:38 -0400 | From | Anthony DiSante <> | Subject | swappiness ignored |
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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.
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