Messages in this thread | | | From | Marc-Christian Petersen <> | Subject | Re: swappiness ignored | Date | Tue, 1 Jun 2004 11:36:17 +0200 |
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On Tuesday 01 June 2004 09:23, Anthony DiSante wrote:
Hi Anthony,
> 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.
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