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On 10/06/10 18:43, Paul H. Hargrove wrote:
> When the file is on a real (not tmpfs or other ramdisk) I am 95% certain
> that this is an artifact of the Linux swapper/pager behavior which is
> thinking it is being smart by "swapping ahead". Even when there is no
> memory pressure that requires swapping, Linux starts queuing swap I/O
> for pages to keep the number of "clean" pages up when possible.
I believe you can tweak that behaviour through the VM subsystem
using /proc/sys/vm/swappiness, it defaults to 60 but lower values
are meant to make the kernel less likely to swap out applications
and instead concentrate on reclaiming pages from the page cache.
cheers,
Chris
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Christopher Samuel - Senior Systems Administrator
VLSCI - Victorian Life Sciences Computational Initiative
Email: sam...@unimelb.edu.au Phone: +61 (0)3 903 55545
http://www.vlsci.unimelb.edu.au/
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