Swappiness...

[Ed Greshko]

Aaron Konstam wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-03-03 at 16:09 +1100, Cameron Simpson wrote:
>> On 02Mar2007 16:00, Mike McCarty <Mike.McCarty at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>> | In an attempt to see what swappiness does to the performance
>> | of my machine, I tried setting it and experimenting. Well, I
>> | don't seem to be able to do that.
>> | 
>> | $ su -
>> | # cd /proc/sys/vm
>> | # cat swappiness
>> | 60
>> | # echo 40>swappiness
>> | # cat swappiness
>> | 60
>> [...]
>>
> Okk, I'll bite. What is swappiness?
> 

Rather than biting....try googling.  "swappiness linux"

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