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Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2004 15:38:38 -0400
From: Anthony DiSante <orders@nodivisions.com>
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Subject: Re: swappiness ignored
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Marc-Christian Petersen wrote:
>>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.

Ah, yes, I do, and it's set to one.  So if I set that to zero, then the 
kernel won't automatically adjust /proc/sys/vm/swappiness?

-Anthony
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