From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@arcor.de>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: pf-sources Kernel
Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 16:15:37 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <irivdg$otl$1@dough.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201105251412.06384.wonko@wonkology.org>
On 05/25/2011 03:12 PM, Alex Schuster wrote:
> [...] Now I have 8G, and
> do not notice that much swapping any more. Although... right now, swap is
> at 600M, and the system is swapping right now. Weird. I'm running rdiff-
> backup, this seems to increase swap size. Maybe too much of the stuff it
> precesses is being cached? Swap is at 800M now.
You can tweak this in /etc/sysctl.conf:
vm.swappiness = 30
Or maybe 20. The default is 60. IMO way too high for desktop systems.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-25 13:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-25 12:12 [gentoo-user] pf-sources Kernel Alex Schuster
2011-05-25 13:15 ` Nikos Chantziaras [this message]
2011-05-25 14:17 ` Swap performance (was: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: pf-sources Kernel) Alex Schuster
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2011-05-22 14:36 [gentoo-user] pf-sources Kernel James
2011-05-23 4:54 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2011-05-23 17:18 ` James
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