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? -- Aaron Konstam <akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>