Re: swappiness of 2.6 kernel

2008-08-10 Thread thveillon.debian
Paul Johnson wrote : On Tue, 2008-08-05 at 08:28 +0100, thveillon.debian wrote: On a Desktop workstation (multimedia edit, 4Gb ram, timer freq being set @ 1000HZ) I've been using 20 for a long time, no problem whatsoever and no swapping at all. How sure are you on that? I've 2GB of RAM¹ and

Re: swappiness of 2.6 kernel

2008-08-09 Thread Paul Johnson
On Tue, 2008-08-05 at 08:28 +0100, thveillon.debian wrote: > On a Desktop workstation (multimedia edit, 4Gb ram, timer freq being set > @ 1000HZ) I've been using 20 for a long time, no problem whatsoever and > no swapping at all. How sure are you on that? I've 2GB of RAM¹ and eventually someth

Re: swappiness of 2.6 kernel

2008-08-05 Thread Account for Debian group mail
On Tue, 5 Aug 2008, thveillon.debian wrote: On a Desktop workstation (multimedia edit, 4Gb ram, timer freq being set @ 1000HZ) I've been using 20 for a long time, no problem whatsoever and no swapping at all. From my understanding for a server you need something closer or equal to 100, for a w

Re: swappiness of 2.6 kernel

2008-08-05 Thread thveillon.debian
Sven Joachim a écrit : On 2008-08-05 07:27 +0200, Chris Burkhardt wrote: Account for Debian group mail wrote: Hello, Has anyone played with the swappiness settings of the 2.6 kernel? It looks like the default is set at 60. I was thinking on this new machine I put together with 4 gigs of ram t

Re: swappiness of 2.6 kernel

2008-08-04 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-08-05 07:27 +0200, Chris Burkhardt wrote: > Account for Debian group mail wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> Has anyone played with the swappiness settings of the 2.6 kernel? It >> looks like the default is set at 60. I was thinking on this new >> machine I put together with 4 gigs of ram that I mi

Re: swappiness of 2.6 kernel

2008-08-04 Thread Chris Burkhardt
Account for Debian group mail wrote: Hello, Has anyone played with the swappiness settings of the 2.6 kernel? It looks like the default is set at 60. I was thinking on this new machine I put together with 4 gigs of ram that I might bump this number up a little, maybe like 80. Any thoughts?