From: Marc-Christian Petersen <m.c.p@kernel.linux-systeme.com>
Organization: Linux-Systeme GmbH
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, orders@nodivisions.com
Subject: Re: swappiness ignored
Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2004 11:36:17 +0200
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On Tuesday 01 June 2004 09:23, Anthony DiSante wrote:

Hi Anthony,

> In the "why swap at all" thread, there was mention of the
> /proc/sys/vm/swappiness tunable, and some people suggested echoing a zero
> to there if you want to minimize/disable swap usage, or echoing a 100 to
> maximize swap usage, etc.
> But on my 2.6.5 system, I can echo a zero to there, then cat it back to
> make sure... then 30 seconds later cat it again, and it's been changed to
> something else (50, 60, 80something).
> Is this supposed to be a value that can be manually adjusted, as some have
> claimed, or is it something the kernel manages automatically?  I definitely
> can't manually set it without having it overwritten shortly thereafter.

I bet you have /proc/sys/vm/autoswappiness or the previous version of it 
w/o /proc stuff.

ciao, Marc
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