Re: Swappiness...

[Aaron Konstam]

On Sat, 2007-03-03 at 22:44 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
> Aaron Konstam wrote:
> > On Sat, 2007-03-03 at 16:09 +1100, Cameron Simpson wrote:
> > > On 02Mar2007 16:00, Mike McCarty  wrote:
> > > | In an attempt to see what swappiness does to the performance
> > > | of my machine, I tried setting it and experimenting. Well, I
> > > | don't seem to be able to do that.
> > > | 
> > > | $ su -
> > > | # cd /proc/sys/vm
> > > | # cat swappiness
> > > | 60
> > > | # echo 40>swappiness
> > > | # cat swappiness
> > > | 60
> > > [...]
> >
> > Okk, I'll bite. What is swappiness?
>
> Rather than biting....try googling.  "swappiness linux"

Very good. Doing the google confirmed whast I said recently on the list
that swap is really not part of the standard VM operation of the kernel.