Re: [SLE] "swappiness": Another good read

From: Silviu Marin-Caea (silviu_marin-caea_at_genesys.ro)
Date: 08/19/04

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Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 14:57:06 +0300

    On Thursday 19 August 2004 12:26, Ti Kan wrote:
    > The Linux 2.6 kernel has a "swappiness" kernel tunable parameter
    > that's settable via /proc/sys/vm/swappiness. It has important
    > impact on system performance and the following page is a good reading
    > for those with SuSE 9.1 who are looking to wring the most out of
    > your system:
    >
    > http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/3000?from=35&comments_per_page=35&PHPSESSID
    >=138e05a5ed277d76df015dbd753b6e84

    Thanks, very useful. Extensive swapping and disk thrashing were the problems
    that brought some of my servers down a few times. Since then, I have learned
    a couple of more things about it, like there exists a dynamic swap allocation
    program (userspace), but it's not necessarily the solution for _any_ problem. 

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