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 [...] Put a space before the ">". The syntax n>foo means direct file descriptor n to the file foo. Example: ls 2>ls.err which sends fd 2 (stderr) to "ls.err". So try: echo 40 >swappiness Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ There is this special biologist word we use for 'stable'. It is 'dead'. - Jack Cohen
