Swap - forcing Swap

[Vram]

On Fri, 2005-09-30 at 04:03 +0000, snpe wrote:
> > 
> > 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.
> >
> why - if you have free memory , yet
> 
> > > You can't force usage of swap 
> > 
> > wrong: you can use some /proc/sys/vm parameters to do this.
> > 
> you can control (litle), but can't force system for swapping if system have free main memory

And how do we do this   with /proc/sys/xm  like the other guy said.??

Tell me please???

Vram


> > > and you don't want this
> > 
> > depends upon your usage patterns.
> > 
> no, you don't want and you can't 
>