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Nikos Chantziaras writes: |
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> On 05/25/2011 03:12 PM, Alex Schuster wrote: |
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> > [...] Now I have 8G, and |
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> > do not notice that much swapping any more. Although... right now, swap |
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> > is at 600M, and the system is swapping right now. Weird. I'm running |
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> > rdiff- backup, this seems to increase swap size. Maybe too much of the |
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> > stuff it precesses is being cached? Swap is at 800M now. |
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> You can tweak this in /etc/sysctl.conf: |
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> vm.swappiness = 30 |
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> Or maybe 20. The default is 60. IMO way too high for desktop systems. |
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Good idea, but I'm using 20 already. |
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I'll start another thread about this. |
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Wonko |
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