I was more curious is switching to a lower swappiness value (or even 0) would allow a Left 4 Dead server to run better or not? I have done considerable reading on swappiness recently (before posting this) and have found some suggesting 0 and others 10. Just was curious what they community thought?
Logan Rogers-Follis - [email protected] Try New Technology Networx - www.tntnetworx.net Owner / IT Consultant Gary Stanley 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
