At 2:08 PM -0500 7/12/05, Mike McCarty wrote: >Tony Nelson wrote: > >>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 >> >> >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. ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>
