Re: Swappiness...

[Aaron Konstam <akonstam sbcglobal net>]

On Sat, 2007-03-03 at 16:09 +1100, Cameron Simpson wrote:
> On 02Mar2007 16:00, Mike McCarty <Mike McCarty sbcglobal net> wrote:
> | In an attempt to see what swappiness does to the performance
> | of my machine, I tried setting it and experimenting. Well, I
> | don't seem to be able to do that.
> | 
> | $ su -
> | # cd /proc/sys/vm
> | # cat swappiness
> | 60
> | # echo 40>swappiness
> | # cat swappiness
> | 60
> [...]
> 
Okk, I'll bite. What is swappiness?

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Aaron Konstam <akonstam sbcglobal net>