Related to: FC4 Sluggishness on a 466 MHz Celeron

[Paul Howarth]

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

Paul.
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Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>