Related to: FC4 Sluggishness on a 466 MHz Celeron
Mike McCarty
mike.mccarty at sbcglobal.net
Wed Jul 13 06:46:13 UTC 2005
Paul Howarth wrote:
>On Tue, 2005-07-12 at 22:05 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote:
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>>Tony Nelson wrote:
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>>>At 2:08 PM -0500 7/12/05, Mike McCarty wrote:
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>>[with regards to /proc/sys/vm/swappiness]
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>>>>So is mine, and attempts to edit that file fail.
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>>>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.
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>>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.
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>/proc files aren't regular files and editing them with a regular editor
>may not work.
>
>Neither would the "cat" command above, unless there was a file called
>"59" in the current directory.
>
>What was probably meant was:
># echo 59 /proc/sys/vm/swappiness
>
>Paul.
>
>
I think you mean
# echo 59 > /proc/sys/vm/swappiness
which is what I took him to mean, as well.
I don't understand why echo should be able to write a file that
an editor cannot.
Mike
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