At 9:33 AM +0200 7/12/05, Klaasjan Brand wrote: >On 7/11/05, Mike McCarty <mike.mccarty@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> FC2 has completely surprised me with how slow it is. I have a 2.7 GHz >> Celeron >> with 256MB RAM, and it takes 3 seconds to start a new xterm. The System >> Monitor >> shows 1-3% CPU occupancy, 154MB used RAM, and 96.9MB of swap. I'm a >> little bit >> surprised that it's using any swap with only 60% of memory full. > >The kernel tries to swap unused pages out to give more space to the >disk cache (all the unused memory). You can adjust the swapping >behaviour by writing a value to /proc/sys/vm/swappiness (see >http://kerneltrap.org/node/1044). So did Con's patch ever made it into the kernel? I see that my swappiness is at 60, the default that Con's patch replaces. 2.6.11-1.35_FC3 ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>
