I use vm.swapinness 0, which means first use (almost) whole memory, then use swap.
On 26.10.2009, at 9:50, Gary Stanley <[email protected]> wrote: > At 12:44 AM 10/26/2009, Logan Rogers-Follis wrote: >> Has anyone ever messed around with tweaking the swappiness value >> for a >> maximum performance on a Linux Left 4 Dead server? I'm running a >> CentOS >> 5.x server with 2 Xen guest domains for Left 4 Dead (and the 2nd >> for the >> soon-to-be-released Left 4 Dead 2) and have been pondering on whether >> tweaking the swappiness would give me any better performance. As >> is I >> never use my swap except for some 32K that randomly shows up on my >> Cacti >> graphing, but otherwise everything runs in memory. > > Memory gets used first, then it will swap. Swapping to disk will > cause page fault latency which will kill any latency sensitive > applications.. > > I don't know how you can get better performance by moving things to > disk. > > > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list > archives, please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux > > -- > Tato sprava bola prehladana na vyskyt virusov > a nebezpecneho obsahu antivirovym systemom > a zda sa byt cista. > -- Tato sprava bola prehladana na vyskyt virusov a nebezpecneho obsahu antivirovym systemom a zda sa byt cista. _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
