> -----Original Message----- > From: Roy Pluschke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2003 9:40 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Controlling swapping > > > Hi, > > Is there a way to control the aggresiveness of swapping. My computer is > on all the time with most of my most commonly used applications left > open. If the computer is not used for a while it takes an annoying long > amount of time to reload the open applications from swap (I may as well > reload the program form scratch). Is there a way to tell the kernel not > to swap unless required? > > I'm using 2.4.20 on a much modified testing system. The box is only > used for desktop purposes. > > Thanks in advance. > R.J. Pluschke
I'm no kernel expert here but I've never seen linx swap out things unless it needed to. I suspect you've got a periodic task that wakes up and demands memory. Likely culrpits are cron tasks or a screen saver. If you have enough memory, you can disable the swap file completely and run with just RAM. I've done this on my laptop and it works fine. As a bonus, this may force the culprit process to log an error when it cannot allocate enough memory. Good luck. Charlie. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]