Re: swappiness ignored

[Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>]

Marc-Christian Petersen wrote:
> On Tuesday 01 June 2004 09:23, Anthony DiSante wrote:
> 
> Hi Anthony,
> 
> 
>>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.
> 
> 
> I bet you have /proc/sys/vm/autoswappiness or the previous version of it 
> w/o /proc stuff.

What option do I need to enable so I can get this control (to disable 
it)? I have sysctl enabled in 2.6.7-rc1 and no autoswappiness to be found.

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