Tuning Memory
Samuel Flory
sflory at rackable.com
Tue Nov 25 00:22:02 UTC 2003
Darwin Zins wrote:
> I was running Mandrake 9.1 and I very rarely used the swapfile. Fedora,
> is swapping my applications out and using the ram for file cache. Is
> there any way to change this? To make it so that it never swaps
> applications out unless it absolutely has to?
>
> Right now for example my system has been sitting idle for the last few
> hours, the file cache has grown and grown in memory use, while User has
> gotten smaller and smaller and the swapfile has grown in use. Right now
> I would say 80% of my ram is in use by cache and 20% by
> User/Shared/Buffers and the swapfile has 70MB in it that must be from User.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated,
>
> Thanks,
>
> Darwin
Is this causing issues? Maybe the 70MB isn't being use that much?
In which case you may be better swapping it out to make more room for cache.
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