On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 16:46 +0000, Bryn M. Reeves wrote: > Gilboa Davara wrote: > > Yeah, but this problem can more-or-less be avoided by > > lowering /proc/sys/vm/swappiness. > > Sure, that will make the VM more likely to evict pagecache data than > anonymous pages when it's trying to free pages. > > I haven't tested this to any real degree on my desktop boxes (as I > don't really suffer too much from this with the setups that I run), > does it give a significant benefit for this case? > > I can imagine it would given that systems where I have seen problems > like this have tended to seem a bit cache-heavy, but testing results > are always good to hear. > > Regards, > Bryn. > To be honest, now-days, I rarely tweak the swappiness value. While it was required on a 32bit machine with >2GB of memory, the default value works just fine on most 64bit workstation (and server) I use these-days. Even on servers with relatively long up times (>4 months), I rarely see more than 100-200MB of swap being used. * - Gilboa * Unless something goes horribly wrong (mostly due to admin error), in which case, I'm glad that I had a lot of swap space ready "just in case"... -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
