Thx folks! taking note...
J.J.
William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
> 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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> Thanks !!!!
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