Thanks Jeff, I appreciate the lesson!
John On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 8:59 PM, Jeff Siddall <[email protected]> wrote: > I suspect you are not understanding how this all works, but then kernel > memory management is not a simple thing. Suffice it to say the kernel > it is probably doing the right thing. If it is using a moderate amount > of swap it is probably because the kernel decided the system would be > better off removing some rarely used code from RAM instead of removing > cache. If you want some control over how readily stuff is swapped out > you can google swappiness. > > However, like I said above, cache is a good thing and in general you > should not be trying to prevent your system from using it. Think of > cache as a dynamic SSD but much faster. Who wouldn't want that? > > Jeff > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The ultimate all-in-one performance toolkit: Intel(R) Parallel Studio XE: Pinpoint memory and threading errors before they happen. Find and fix more than 250 security defects in the development cycle. Locate bottlenecks in serial and parallel code that limit performance. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devfeb _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
