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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 is |
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> at 600M, and the system is swapping right now. Weird. I'm running rdiff- |
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> backup, this seems to increase swap size. Maybe too much of the stuff it |
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> 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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