Related to: FC4 Sluggishness on a 466 MHz Celeron

[Mike McCarty]

Paul Howarth wrote:

>On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 01:46 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote:
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>>I think you mean
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>># echo 59 > /proc/sys/vm/swappiness
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>>which is what I took him to mean, as well.
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>Yes, that's what I meant.
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>>I don't understand why echo should be able to write a file that
>>an editor cannot.
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>Some editors like to rename the original file to "filename~" and then
>write out a new file "filename". This won't work in /proc.
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>Paul.
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I don't use *that* editor. I never have used that one. Interesting that one
can delete but not rename the file, even as owner. How is that accomplished?

Mike

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