Jonathan Gray wrote:
Forgot to mention. In addition to not over-committing your memory
resources to the JVMs, you should also set the swappiness to 0 on the
kernel.
Info on how to do this (and links to the flame wars on linux kernel
mailing lists and slashdot) here:
http://www.sollers.ca/blog/2008/swappiness/
Thanks for that - added to my tuning todo list :)
-stephen
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