Swap - forcing Swap

[Vram]

On Fri, 2005-09-30 at 00:18 +0200, Andreas Happe wrote:
> On 2005-09-29, snpe <snpe at snpe.co.yu> wrote:
> > swap is space on disk and system use it when haven't enough memory
> > When swap is unused it is very good - have enough memory
> 
> it depends. Imagine a large unused program (like a JVM with around
> 500mb) which you don't use always (think i2p anonymity proxy). You do
> not want that program to fill your RAM. This programs memory can be
> swapped out and the free memory used for cache.
> 
> > You can't force usage of swap 
> 
> wrong: you can use some /proc/sys/vm parameters to do this.


Tell me more...Or point me somewhere..

Thanks

Vram



> 
> > and you don't want this
> 
> depends upon your usage patterns.
> 
> Andreas
> 
>