Related to: FC4 Sluggishness on a 466 MHz Celeron
Tony Nelson
tonynelson at georgeanelson.com
Wed Jul 13 16:30:17 UTC 2005
At 7:26 AM +0100 7/13/05, Paul Howarth wrote:
>On Tue, 2005-07-12 at 22:05 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote:
>> Tony Nelson wrote:
>>
>> >At 2:08 PM -0500 7/12/05, Mike McCarty wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> [with regards to /proc/sys/vm/swappiness]
>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>So is mine, and attempts to edit that file fail.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >
>> >Works here. Were you root? Do you really mean "edit" or did you:
>> >
>> > # cat 59 >/proc/sys/vm/swappiness
>> >
>> >I get permission denied as a normal user, while the value sticks if I'm
>> >root. The sign that the patch is in the kernel is that changes don't
>> >stick. So I suppose it never made it in.
>> >
>> >
>> I was logged in as myself, with su. I used an editor which read it fine.
>> Attempts to save the edit failed with access denied. I did not try a cat.
>
>/proc files aren't regular files and editing them with a regular editor
>may not work.
>
>Neither would the "cat" command above, unless there was a file called
>"59" in the current directory.
>
>What was probably meant was:
># echo 59 /proc/sys/vm/swappiness
Uhh, right. That's about what I really did, followed by a cat to see the
result. Sorry for the confusion. (Comes from having separate machines for
email and Linux, and, well, laziness.)
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