Memory, swap, and limits

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 15:58:49 +0000,
  Beartooth Sciurivore <beartooth at swva.net> wrote:
> 
> 	OK; but then there's something else I don't know, or don't 
> understand. Does a Fedora machine do any swapping while it has memory 
> left? I didn't think I had (or needed) any control at all over swapping, 
> beyond choosing how much space to afford it.

The vm.swappiness kernel parameter has an effect on swapping. I don't
remember the details, but it should be easy to find more information
if you are interested.