Re: [gentoo-user] Re: how to use RAM

2009-10-12 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Nikos Chantziaras schrieb: > One thing I did after my RAM upgrade was to put: > > vm.swappiness = 30 > > in /etc/sysctl.conf to make the kernel use less swap. (The default > swappiness is 60.) Don't use values lower than 20 though, and better > don't disable swap completely; it's marginal, b

[gentoo-user] Re: how to use RAM

2009-10-12 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 10/12/2009 11:44 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Greets, gentoo-users, as I ordered myself an upgrade from 4 to 8 gigs of RAM for my main workstation, just because it's rather cheap now and I have good use for the "old" 4 gigs I wonder what to do with those shiny new additional 4 gigs. OK,