Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: Jack Lloyd <lloyd@×××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Is swap need when there is 4g of ram?
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 14:21:52
Message-Id: 20070314141959.GJ839@randombit.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Is swap need when there is 4g of ram? by "Hemmann
1 On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 03:32:45PM +0100, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote:
2
3 > 50mb in swap - and everything is slow. So slow as if every bit is fetched by a
4 > mule caravan. And it does not matter if it is a swap partition or a swap
5 > file. It is slow.
6 >
7 > But there is an easy way to get the box back to normal speed: swapoff -a &&
8 > swapon -a ...
9
10 Perhaps better to tweak the VM so it is not as swap-happy using
11 /proc/sys/vm/swappiness. See http://kerneltrap.org/node/1044
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