Re: Suggestions for a new AMD64 system
lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen) writes:
> On Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 07:59:35PM +0100, Gabor Gombas wrote:
>> Are you sure? That's what I tought at first but now I'm not so sure.
>> Dirty filesystem pages will not be swapped (that won't make any sense).
>
> Well if an application can't swap in to finish its job, it might leave a
> file corrupted.
>
>> ... and to make more RAM available by getting rid of unused-but-dirty
>> pages.
>
> Unless there is something that ram is needed for there is no point
> swapping things out. Windows may not belive that, but linux at least
> seems to try and avoid swapping.
>
> Len Sorensen
Only to the amout of /proc/sys/vm/swappiness. After that binaries and
data are swapped out in favour of more cache.
MfG
Goswin
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