On Wed, 2005-12-14 at 08:49 -0600, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
> William Warren wrote:
>
> > set swappiness to zero. That will force the machine to use all
> > physical ram before swapping for the most part. Also i have heard
> > that xorg has a memory leak. I do not know if that has been addressed
> > yet and that could be the cause of your issue.
>
>
> Could you elaborate on that (swappiness) just a bit :-) ? Is this a
> generic Linux setting, or RH/CentOS specific ? TIA
>
> A memory leak *WOULD* cause this kind of thing. SGI had such a problem a
> few years back in some version or other of their (released) IRIX OS, &
> X.org just got back into the game, so that's fairly plausible as well.
>
swappiness is a 2.6 kernel setting that allows you to change the
behavior of swap memory.
There are a couple good links in this article:
http://kerneltrap.org/node/3202?from=150&comments_per_page=50
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