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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, but complete absence of
> swap can hurt performance even with plenty of RAM.

That was one of my thoughts, yes.
Did that already when I got 4 gigs (and 64bit) ... ;-)

Thanks anyway, Stefan