Re: [K12OSN] How to DRASTICALLY speed up app response on K12LTSP

["Jim Kronebusch" <jim winonacotter org>]

On Fri, 05 Oct 2007 03:29:36 -0400, Terrell Prudé Jr. wrote
> I just ran across this today over at www.linuxtoday.com.  I tried out
> the following two settings on my K12LTSP 4.2EL box to see if they would
> indeed speed up response time for desktop apps.
> 
> /sbin/sysctl -w vm.swappiness=1    (default is 60)
> /sbin/sysctl -w vm.vfs_cache_pressure=50   (default is 100)
> 
> These are, as you might've guessed from the "vm" in the name, virtual
> memory settings for Linux (the kernel).

Can anyone think of any benefit to making these same changes in
/opt/ltsp/i386/etc/sysctl.conf?  I assume not since everything is basically running in RAM.

Jim

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