Hello Andrew, Friday, November 9, 2007, 1:35:35 AM, you wrote:
> From Wed, 07 Nov 2007 23:47:14 +0100 > Thomas Kunze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> http://kerneltrap.org/node/3000 should answer your questions. > Indeed setting /proc/sys/vm/swappiness to 0 avoids this hell swapping. > Then why not check for "no swap file" condition in Angstrom startup > scripts, and setting swappiness to 0 for configurations without a swap > file? In the end, it's not very unusual to see a linux PDAa without a > swap file. Patches welcome. > But in general it is a mystery to me why it intensively dumps out the > pages of the applications that were just used, and tends to keep the > disk cache intact even if it is not used at all. Even if swappiness is > 60. But I guess that's not a question for this list :) Linux has rather mediocre VM subsystem, to say it mild. The guys so oversitted themselves on 1Gb+ RAM machines that forgot that memory needs management at all... -- Best regards, Paul mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Angstrom-distro-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/angstrom-distro-users
