recommend value for Riak is zero. On Oct 16, 2013, at 4:28 PM, Alex Rice <[email protected]> wrote:
> Just an informal poll- what is preferred for Linux vm.swappiness > setting for Riak in a *cloud* environment? The default is 60 - a lot > of stuff gets swapped out. This is good for OS disk cache. > > I am thinking vm.swappiness = 0 > > - Avoid slow & potentially costly I/O operations in the virtualized > environment > - Make it easier to see if bitcask is running low of memory, as soon > as the Swap partition has been touched at all (1st out of memory > condition) > - Disk cache wont be as effective. > - I just like seeing Swap: 0% when I log in :0 > > Does this setting even matter at all, practically speaking? > > _______________________________________________ > riak-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.basho.com/mailman/listinfo/riak-users_lists.basho.com _______________________________________________ riak-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.basho.com/mailman/listinfo/riak-users_lists.basho.com
