Tuning Memory

[Samuel Flory]

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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