Johnny Hughes wrote:
>On Wed, 2005-12-14 at 08:49 -0600, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
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>>William Warren wrote:
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>>>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.
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>>Could you elaborate on that (swappiness) just a bit :-) ? Is this a
>>generic Linux setting, or RH/CentOS specific ? TIA
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>>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.
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>swappiness is a 2.6 kernel setting that allows you to change the
>behavior of swap memory.
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>There are a couple good links in this article:
>http://kerneltrap.org/node/3202?from=150&comments_per_page=50
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