Aaron Konstam wrote:
On Sat, 2007-03-03 at 16:09 +1100, Cameron Simpson wrote:
On 02Mar2007 16:00, Mike McCarty <Mike.McCarty@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
| In an attempt to see what swappiness does to the performance
| of my machine, I tried setting it and experimenting. Well, I
| don't seem to be able to do that.
|
| $ su -
| # cd /proc/sys/vm
| # cat swappiness
| 60
| # echo 40>swappiness
| # cat swappiness
| 60
[...]
Okk, I'll bite. What is swappiness?
Rather than biting....try googling. "swappiness linux"
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