--- Denis Vlasenko
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> It is perfectly sane to swap out something unused
> (think about getties which are unused for weeks)
> in order to free some RAM for file cache.
>
> The question is, how aggressive to be with it.
>
> You can:
> * play with /proc/sys/vm/swappiness
> * run without swap at all, you seem to have enough
> memory for that
>
> I run some of my boxes swapless, it works :)
If it swapped out 20-100MB I wouldn't care, but now
it's constantly rising up to 600MB swap.. all the
getties in the world don't use up 600MB :-)
/proc/sys/vm/swappiness is a new feature in 2.6 right?
I don't see it on this box running
"2.4.21-9.0.1.ELsmp".
//M
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