Re: Related to: FC4 Sluggishness on a 466 MHz Celeron

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Paul Howarth wrote:

On Tue, 2005-07-12 at 22:05 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote:
Tony Nelson wrote:

At 2:08 PM -0500 7/12/05, Mike McCarty wrote:


[with regards to /proc/sys/vm/swappiness]

So is mine, and attempts to edit that file fail.
Works here.  Were you root?  Do you really mean "edit" or did you:

  # cat 59 >/proc/sys/vm/swappiness

I get permission denied as a normal user, while the value sticks if I'm
root.  The sign that the patch is in the kernel is that changes don't
stick.  So I suppose it never made it in.


I was logged in as myself, with su. I used an editor which read it fine.
Attempts to save the edit failed with access denied. I did not try a cat.

/proc files aren't regular files and editing them with a regular editor
may not work.

Neither would the "cat" command above, unless there was a file called
"59" in the current directory.

What was probably meant was:
# echo 59 /proc/sys/vm/swappiness

Paul.
I think you mean

# echo 59 > /proc/sys/vm/swappiness

which is what I took him to mean, as well.

I don't understand why echo should be able to write a file that
an editor cannot.

Mike

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