At 12:44 AM 10/26/2009, Logan Rogers-Follis wrote: >Has anyone ever messed around with tweaking the swappiness value for a >maximum performance on a Linux Left 4 Dead server? I'm running a CentOS >5.x server with 2 Xen guest domains for Left 4 Dead (and the 2nd for the >soon-to-be-released Left 4 Dead 2) and have been pondering on whether >tweaking the swappiness would give me any better performance. As is I >never use my swap except for some 32K that randomly shows up on my Cacti >graphing, but otherwise everything runs in memory.
Memory gets used first, then it will swap. Swapping to disk will cause page fault latency which will kill any latency sensitive applications.. I don't know how you can get better performance by moving things to disk. _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
