<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Nice - I didn't even know this setting existed. For the first time since I brought it online my server's immediate load is back to 0.00 -- with five clients, streaming audio, OOo, TB and Firefox plus a bunch of services (web, mysql, mail, DNS, etc). I guess the server was giving a surfeit of precedence to cached files with the newest kernel. Good to know. Thanks, Michael Dan Young wrote: <blockquote cite="mid994441ae0710050753u4a57538g773b7a89943ac9f4@mail.gmail.com" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On 10/5/07, "Terrell Prudé Jr." <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:microman@cmosnetworks.com"><microman@cmosnetworks.com></a> wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap=""> /sbin/sysctl -w vm.swappiness=1 (default is 60) /sbin/sysctl -w vm.vfs_cache_pressure=50 (default is 100) </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> If you want those kind of changes to persist between reboots, you must add them to /etc/sysctl.conf</pre> </blockquote> </body> </html>