Swappiness...

[Cameron Simpson]

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
[...]

Put a space before the ">". The syntax n>foo means direct file
descriptor n to the file foo. Example:

  ls 2>ls.err

which sends fd 2 (stderr) to "ls.err".
So try:

  echo 40 >swappiness

Cheers,
-- 
Cameron Simpson <cs at zip.com.au> DoD#743
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There is this special biologist word we use for 'stable'. It is 'dead'.
        - Jack Cohen