From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1PBFuf-0000a0-Qu for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 28 Oct 2010 00:00:14 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B78D4E085B; Wed, 27 Oct 2010 23:59:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-qy0-f181.google.com (mail-qy0-f181.google.com [209.85.216.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9947FE085B for ; Wed, 27 Oct 2010 23:59:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qyk10 with SMTP id 10so1414469qyk.19 for ; Wed, 27 Oct 2010 16:59:43 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=W/6PVtZl96ecQ9ijPqYmGKwkIacCJHlbLsy6KDW1r5w=; b=qTCgUqZIwbLzGqntNF9iLdMOn6vrIpN54kFJc3QBjG8pDAFzR5+28nr0z/NnXBa52p yOj+juPSoU6oivGqWAe0XDEQUeFzaWs1fjMCz4U7z4w5XWQ18afMy/v+uNlUqcXCVM1Y i75cmPk1HpXD7LBtuSnDA9GEe14Lm+7iLvC6Y= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=hy1BmDXj+/vsanHYKJWoJS4Ntm3wb4d5cbQmsi/5GNJpMbEuT1Q8mvBaV58btdGPMI UPomHfyf85qqf2A09vrvUavSQG3ywU664MXtDtURXQ8IBOuuPSxVBU0krrnpind8sqin sNXsZH+J3Z6hpFB94v7+L64fWYc6Gem1qAHWo= Received: by 10.224.124.143 with SMTP id u15mr2919953qar.25.1288223983371; Wed, 27 Oct 2010 16:59:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.2] (adsl-0-94-212.jan.bellsouth.net [65.0.94.212]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id y21sm228027vbx.16.2010.10.27.16.59.41 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 27 Oct 2010 16:59:42 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4CC8BCEB.50904@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 18:59:39 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.14) Gecko/20101020 Gentoo/2.0.9 SeaMonkey/2.0.9 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] swap usage creeping up References: <1288072147.8318.56.camel@localhost> <1288076539.8318.116.camel@localhost> <1288219650.8318.168.camel@localhost> <20101028004454.2d6cc500@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20101028004454.2d6cc500@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: f702fead-39de-4e2e-afbc-2daee02094a3 X-Archives-Hash: 3f8e03629f722be350a8fb032bd0d937 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 28 Oct 2010 08:17:30 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > >>> it's 60. That seems a little high based on what you told me, but I >>> have no reference value to compare it to from 2-3 weeks ago. >>> >> well, in the last few days I haven't seen any swap usage at all, which >> is how the system used to run! >> >> Strange how the swappiness changed so dramatically in recent kernels. >> > I wondered the same when I checked and saw that my computers were using > 60 too. But when I googled about it I found references to a default of 60 > from over a year ago. > > That was about the time mine got changed. I always wondered how that got changed. Since I added it to rc.conf, that should keep it from getting changed again. May want to do the same on yours too. Dale :-) :-)