Swap - forcing Swap

Andreas Happe news_0403 at flatline.ath.cx
Thu Sep 29 21:54:06 UTC 2005


On 2005-09-29, Jonathan S. Romero <jromero at raydiance-inc.com> wrote:
> I'd imagine however that should you so desire you can change the
> kernel's memory allocation parameters using the /proc interface with
> scripts at bootup.  Still not remotely worth the effort.

just look into /proc/sys/vm/swappiness or
/proc/sys/vm/vfs_cache_pressure, interesting parameters would be.
Swappiness determines how hard your system tries to swap out things from
memory. vfs_cache_pressure regulates the file system (dentry and inode)
cache.

Andreas





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