Re: Controlling swapping

[Shyamal Prasad <shyamal.prasad@sbcglobal.net>]

    "Roy" == Roy Pluschke <rjplus@sunshine.net> writes:

    Roy> Leave the computer alone for a half hour and try to resume
    Roy> working and a bunch of swapping occours. Note the programs do
    Roy> not take an "an absolute absurd time to come outta swap" just
    Roy> enough to be annoying.  I was hoping there was a method of
    Roy> some how tuning swapping/caching parameters to not do any
    Roy> swapping/caching while the machine was left idle.

Perhaps your disks are spinning down? That is usually "just enough to
be annoying." Leave 'vmstat 1' running in an open xterminal the next
time and see if you are really swapping.

Cheers!
Shyamal