Related to: FC4 Sluggishness on a 466 MHz Celeron

Mike McCarty mike.mccarty at sbcglobal.net
Wed Jul 13 03:05:31 UTC 2005


Tony Nelson wrote:

>At 2:08 PM -0500 7/12/05, Mike McCarty wrote:
>  
>
[with regards to /proc/sys/vm/swappiness]

>>>      
>>>
>>So is mine, and attempts to edit that file fail.
>>    
>>
>
>Works here.  Were you root?  Do you really mean "edit" or did you:
>
>    # cat 59 >/proc/sys/vm/swappiness
>
>I get permission denied as a normal user, while the value sticks if I'm
>root.  The sign that the patch is in the kernel is that changes don't
>stick.  So I suppose it never made it in.
>  
>
I was logged in as myself, with su. I used an editor which read it fine.
Attempts to save the edit failed with access denied. I did not try a cat.

Mike

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