[K12OSN] How to DRASTICALLY speed up app response on K12LTSP

[Dan Young]

On 10/5/07, Jim Kronebusch <jim at winonacotter.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 5 Oct 2007 07:53:53 -0700, Dan Young wrote
> > On 10/5/07, "Terrell Prudé Jr." <microman at cmosnetworks.com> wrote:
> > >  /sbin/sysctl -w vm.swappiness=1    (default is 60)
> > >  /sbin/sysctl -w vm.vfs_cache_pressure=50   (default is 100)
> >
> > If you want those kind of changes to persist between reboots, you must add
> > them to /etc/sysctl.conf
>
> So in /etc/sysctl.conf you would just add the following two lines"
>
> vm.swappiness=1
> vm.vfs_cache_pressure=50

Yes.

While I'm glad this setting has had positive results for the O.P., the
results of these types of changes are likely to be highly dependent on
your particular environment:

http://kerneltrap.org/node/3000

-- 
Dan Young <dyoung at mesd.k12.or.us>
Multnomah ESD - Technology Services
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