Try setting vm.swappiness = 0 in /etc/sysctl.conf . The default is 60. The smaller the value, the more reluctant the kernel will be to swap. Range is 0...100 .
On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 17:35 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > Hi, > On Monday 04 April 2005 17:24, Christoph Gysin wrote: > > Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > > How do I get my performance back? Easy: swapoff -a && swapon -a and > > > bingo, KDE is lighting fast again. > > > > What about not using swap at all? With 1 gig RAM on your desktop machine, > > are you ever going to fill up your RAM entirely? If swapping on linux > > sucks, disable it. > > > > Of course this is not recommended on a production server ;-) > > > > Christoph > > because when I compile HUGEAPP I sometimes need some swap. I also > experimented > a little bit with swsusp (without much success), and I think it is better to > have a slowdown, than the oom-killer killing the wrong app ... > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- Ivan Yosifov. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
