Kubuntu Feisty using up all my 1.5gb of RAM...

[Earl Violet]

--- Danni Matzk <danni at dannimatzk.co.uk> wrote:

> 
> > If you want to configure swap, just change the swappiness of your
> system.
> > Simply echo a value from 0 to 100 onto /proc/sys/vm/swappiness .
> The higher
> > a number set here, the more the system will swap - and the other
> way round,
> > of course. You can see the current value of swappiness with the
> > command "cat /proc/sys/vm/swappiness". Default 60. I use 20.

One of my computers is a Sun Ultra running Debian Etch.  I got
fascinated with customizing FVWM before Ubuntu began Sparc support. 
This machine has 1 GB memory and 1 GB swap.  I just checked
swappiness=60.  I usually keep the machine up for a week at a time
and have never gone into swap with it.  I have gotten up to 7 MB
free, but never got to swap.  I run Kubuntu 6.06 on a Dell i386 with
only 512 MB and use swap quite a bit.

Earl

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