From: Anthony DiSante <orders@nodivisions.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: swappiness ignored
Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2004 03:23:38 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <40BC2EFA.6090503@nodivisions.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200405260940.i4Q9eJdS000767@81-2-122-30.bradfords.org.uk>
In the "why swap at all" thread, there was mention of the
/proc/sys/vm/swappiness tunable, and some people suggested echoing a zero to
there if you want to minimize/disable swap usage, or echoing a 100 to
maximize swap usage, etc.
But on my 2.6.5 system, I can echo a zero to there, then cat it back to make
sure... then 30 seconds later cat it again, and it's been changed to
something else (50, 60, 80something).
Is this supposed to be a value that can be manually adjusted, as some have
claimed, or is it something the kernel manages automatically? I definitely
can't manually set it without having it overwritten shortly thereafter.
-Anthony
http://nodivisions.com/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-06-01 7:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 76+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-05-26 6:38 why swap at all? Anthony DiSante
2004-05-26 7:31 ` Buddy Lumpkin
2004-05-26 7:55 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-05-26 8:30 ` Buddy Lumpkin
2004-05-26 8:44 ` Nick Piggin
2004-05-26 9:34 ` John Bradford
2004-05-26 9:48 ` Nick Piggin
2004-05-26 10:10 ` Matthias Schniedermeyer
2004-05-26 10:33 ` Nick Piggin
2004-05-26 10:58 ` Matthias Schniedermeyer
2004-05-26 11:19 ` Nick Piggin
2004-05-26 12:27 ` Matthias Schniedermeyer
2004-05-27 5:38 ` Nick Piggin
2004-05-26 12:37 ` Matthias Schniedermeyer
2004-05-26 13:06 ` Gianni Tedesco
2004-05-26 13:41 ` Matt H.
2004-05-26 13:55 ` Buddy Lumpkin
2004-05-27 5:14 ` Tom Felker
2004-05-27 6:02 ` Nick Piggin
2004-05-27 7:04 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2004-05-27 7:16 ` Oliver Neukum
2004-05-26 10:45 ` Martin Olsson
2004-05-26 11:25 ` Nick Piggin
2004-05-26 16:33 ` David Schwartz
2004-05-26 16:58 ` John Bradford
2004-05-26 23:32 ` Kyle Moffett
2004-05-27 8:05 ` John Bradford
2004-05-26 10:46 ` John Bradford
2004-05-26 11:46 ` Buddy Lumpkin
2004-05-26 11:39 ` Buddy Lumpkin
2004-05-26 9:42 ` Anthony DiSante
2004-05-26 9:58 ` Nick Piggin
2004-05-26 20:11 ` Wakko Warner
2004-05-27 5:59 ` Nick Piggin
2004-05-27 14:34 ` Wakko Warner
2004-05-26 10:40 ` Buddy Lumpkin
2004-05-26 13:15 ` Helge Hafting
2004-05-26 9:09 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-05-26 11:38 ` Buddy Lumpkin
2004-05-26 12:12 ` Paulo Marques
2004-05-26 12:14 ` Nick Piggin
2004-05-26 12:40 ` Denis Vlasenko
2004-05-26 10:41 ` Denis Vlasenko
2004-05-26 12:07 ` Buddy Lumpkin
2004-05-26 12:06 ` Marc-Christian Petersen
2004-05-26 12:19 ` Denis Vlasenko
2004-05-26 13:48 ` Buddy Lumpkin
2004-05-26 12:33 ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-05-26 13:25 ` Buddy Lumpkin
2004-05-26 12:30 ` Rik van Riel
2004-05-26 10:44 ` Denis Vlasenko
2004-05-26 11:49 ` Buddy Lumpkin
2004-05-26 12:19 ` Rik van Riel
2004-05-26 12:55 ` Buddy Lumpkin
2004-05-26 8:27 ` Roger Luethi
2004-05-26 9:23 ` John Bradford
2004-05-26 9:30 ` Roger Luethi
2004-05-26 10:35 ` John Bradford
2004-05-26 10:37 ` Nick Piggin
2004-05-26 10:48 ` John Bradford
2004-05-26 13:01 ` Helge Hafting
2004-05-26 8:32 ` Denis Vlasenko
2004-05-26 9:00 ` Helge Hafting
2004-05-26 9:40 ` John Bradford
2004-05-26 13:06 ` Helge Hafting
2004-06-01 7:23 ` Anthony DiSante [this message]
2004-06-01 9:36 ` swappiness ignored Marc-Christian Petersen
2004-06-01 19:38 ` Anthony DiSante
2004-06-01 19:42 ` Marc-Christian Petersen
2004-06-02 19:54 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-06-02 23:33 ` Con Kolivas
2004-05-26 9:06 ` why swap at all? John Bradford
2004-05-26 12:31 ` Buddy Lumpkin
2004-05-26 10:02 ` Raphael Jacquot
2004-05-26 13:00 ` Satoshi Oshima
2004-05-26 13:38 ` William Lee Irwin III
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