Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 20 Dec 2001 08:30:54 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 20 Dec 2001 08:30:44 -0500 Received: from jester.ti.com ([192.94.94.1]:18925 "EHLO jester.ti.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 20 Dec 2001 08:30:33 -0500 Message-ID: <3C21E7F1.3040406@ti.com> Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 14:30:25 +0100 From: christian e Organization: Texas Instruments A/S,Denmark User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.6) Gecko/20011202 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux kernel Subject: minimizing swap usage Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi,all Can someone give me a pointer to how I can avoid somethign like this: foo@bar]$ free -m total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 249 245 4 0 6 136 -/+ buffers/cache: 102 147 Swap: 243 89 153 What's with all the caching when my apps crawl because it's swapping so much ? I've tried to adjust /proc/vm/kswapd parameters but that doesn't seem to help..I'd like to postpone the swapping until its almost out of physical memory.. best regards Christian - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/