Benji York wrote:
If you're on Linux, you can tweak swappiness (/proc/sys/vm/swappiness;
http://lwn.net/Articles/83588/) to affect how much RAM is used for the
page cache and how much for your process.
While we're on that subject. We recently had a box that would take
strain for almost no reason. You'd copy a bigish file from one place to
another and the load average would just soar as the various zope and zeo
instances tried to get to the disk. Turns out this machine used the
anticipatory io scheduler, which really messes things up. We changed it
to deadline, like so:
echo deadline > /sys/block/sda/queue/scheduler
Performance is a lot better now. Our (not very scientific) tests shows
that deadline is also a little better than cfq for running zope.
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