Related to: FC4 Sluggishness on a 466 MHz Celeron

[Mike McCarty]

Tony Nelson wrote:

>At 9:33 AM +0200 7/12/05, Klaasjan Brand wrote:
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>
>>On 7/11/05, Mike McCarty <mike.mccarty at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
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>>>FC2 has completely surprised me with how slow it is. I have a 2.7 GHz
>>>Celeron
>>>with 256MB RAM, and it takes 3 seconds to start a new xterm. The System
>>>Monitor
>>>shows 1-3% CPU occupancy, 154MB used RAM, and 96.9MB of swap. I'm a
>>>little bit
>>>surprised that it's using any swap with only 60% of memory full.
>>>      
>>>
>>The kernel tries to swap unused pages out to give more space to the
>>disk cache (all the unused memory). You can adjust the swapping
>>behaviour by writing a value to /proc/sys/vm/swappiness (see
>>http://kerneltrap.org/node/1044).
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>
>So did Con's patch ever made it into the kernel?  I see that my swappiness
>is at 60, the default that Con's patch replaces.  2.6.11-1.35_FC3
>  
>
So is mine, and attempts to edit that file fail.

Mike

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