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Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 16:33:23 -0400
From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
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To: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
CC: Neil Horman <nhorman@redhat.com>,
       linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: mlock(1)
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Lee Revell wrote:
> Is this really a good idea?  I suspect it would be abused.  For example,
> people would mlock mozilla or openoffice to keep it from being paged out
> overnight when updatedb runs, where the real solution is to fix the
> problem with the VM that causes updatedb to force other apps to swap
> out. 

Use /proc/swappiness for this

It definitely helped for me.  I set it really low, around '10' or so.

	Jeff


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