[Tobias Brox - Wed at 09:22:17PM +0200] > I'd trust linux to handle swap/cache sensibly. Eventually, become involved > with kernel hacking ;-)
Of course, there are also some files in /proc/sys/vm that you may want to peek into, for tuning the swapping. Particularly, at later 2.6-kernels (I'm running 2.6.12) you have the file /proc/sys/vm/swappiness, where the number should be some percentage. I'm not completely sure how it works, but I suppose that the higher you set it, the more likely it is to swap out memory not beeing used. I think the default setting is probably sane, but you may want to google a bit about it. -- Notice of Confidentiality: This email is sent unencrypted over the network, and may be stored on several email servers; it can be read by third parties as easy as a postcard. Do not rely on email for confidential information. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster