On Sat, 2007-03-03 at 22:44 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > 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" > Very good. Doing the google confirmed whast I said recently on the list that swap is really not part of the standard VM operation of the kernel. -- Aaron Konstam <akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>