On Monday 04 April 2005 21:34, Ivan Yosifov wrote: > Try setting vm.swappiness = 0 in /etc/sysctl.conf . The default is 60. > The smaller the value, the more reluctant the kernel will be to swap. > Range is 0...100 .
thanks, I know about swappiness: energy portage # cat /proc/sys/vm/swappiness 10 10 is not much better than 60, but 100 is much worse. The problem is not swapping itself, it is, that always the wrong stuff ends in the swapspace and it is so dead slow, as if every single bit is personally transfered first class, before the next on is going over the cable ... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
