Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758998AbXLQNRo (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Dec 2007 08:17:44 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755501AbXLQNRh (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Dec 2007 08:17:37 -0500 Received: from minas.ics.muni.cz ([147.251.4.40]:52899 "EHLO minas.ics.muni.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755435AbXLQNRg (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Dec 2007 08:17:36 -0500 Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 14:17:26 +0100 From: Lukas Hejtmanek To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: swapping in 2.6.24-rc5-git3 Message-ID: <20071217131726.GA14091@ics.muni.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-echelon: NSA, CIA, CI5, MI5, FBI, KGB, BIS, Plutonium, Bin Laden, bomb User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) X-Muni-Spam-TestIP: 147.251.54.96 X-Muni-Envelope-From: xhejtman@anubis.fi.muni.cz X-Muni-Virus-Test: Clean X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH authentication, not delayed by milter-greylist-3.0 (minas.ics.muni.cz [147.251.4.35]); Mon, 17 Dec 2007 14:17:34 +0100 (CET) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 579 Lines: 18 Hello, does /proc/sys/vm/swappiness still work as expected? # /proc/sys/vm# cat swappiness 0 but scp-ing 2GB file causes many processes are swapped out due to increase of the file cache size. Why? This is totally catastrophic behaviour on the desktop. Is there a way to avoid it except turning off the swap? -- Luk?? Hejtm?nek -- 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/