"You have the perfect configuration now." I'm currently running vm.swappiness = 0 so if that is what you meant that is good to hear.
Thanks for all the input guys! Logan Rogers-Follis - [email protected] Try New Technology Networx - www.tntnetworx.net Owner / IT Consultant John wrote: >> 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? >> > > You have the perfect configuration now. As Gary said, leaving applications > in memory is exactly what you need for your latency-sensitve game server. > > If you're already not using any appreciable amount of swap, then lowering > the value would not make a difference for you, because the system would > simply continue to not use swap. > > Raising the value significantly would cause Linux to swap to disk more > aggressively, which would lead to lesser-used L4D (and other application) > memory being paged to disk and to a larger in-memory system-level disk > cache. Level loads then might happen faster, but if someone were to join the > server and cause L4D to touch some memory currently stored on disk (say, by > moving to a part of the map that hadn't been seen in awhile), there would be > a noticable delay while the system retrieved the on-disk page (Microsoft > would call this a "hard fault"). In other words, the game would stutter. > > -John > > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please > visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux > > > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
