Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2006 12:04:43 +0100
From: Marc Koschewski <marc@osknowledge.org>
To: Pawe? Zadr?g <p.zeddi@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: How to tune kernel to swap more often (video ram swap)
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* Pawe? Zadr?g <p.zeddi@gmail.com> [2006-02-05 11:04:25 +0100]:

> Yo...
> 
> In normal case, using harddisk as a swap space i should ask how to cut
> down swapping, or make swapping when idle, etc... My case is a little
> bit diffrent... I have a 256MB video card, while 240MB of it is used
> as a swap space. And the question is: how to tune kernel to swap more
> often. I known swapped memory must be copied back to ram before beeing
> used, so i'm looking for a reasonable tunning values...
> 
> What do You think about that mighty list ?

Try playing around with /proc/sys/vm/swappiness. If you google for
'/proc/sys/vm/swappiness' you may find solutions on swapping.

Marc

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