http://www.brunolinux.com/06-Fine_Tuning_Your_System/Swappiness.html
Johnny Hughes wrote:
> 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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