Romanowski, John (OFT) wrote:
If I set swappiness=0 what does Linux do instead of swapping? What does swappiness=100 mean?
This does not control the actual physical rate of swapping, it controls how aggressively Linux will seek out pages for swapping in order to maintain free storage frames. Therefore swappiness=0 means that Linux will try to leave as many pages in storage as possible, and only steal pages as required. You never get something for nothing ;-) It is however worth experimenting with, and there have been a number of discussions with many opinions. Use Google to search for ideas ;-) Mark ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
