Re: swapping and the value of /proc/sys/vm/swappiness

On Wed, 8 Sep 2004, Martin J. Bligh wrote:

For HPC, maybe. For a fileserver, it might be far too little. That's the
trouble ... it's all dependant on the workload. Personally, I'd prefer
to get rid of manual tweakables (which are a pain in the ass in the field
anyway), and try to have the kernel react to what the customer is doing.

Agreed.  Many of these things should be self-tunable pretty
easily, too...


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