Re: why sarge is so noisy
On Fri, 2007-09-07 at 13:40 -0500, Mumia W.. wrote:
> On 09/07/2007 11:58 AM, David Brodbeck wrote:
> >
> > Also, Linux is very aggressive about swapping out idle pages. (Some
> > would even say too aggressive.) Even if you have what you think is
> > plenty of RAM, it's quite likely Linux will swap out some stuff in order
> > to make more room for the disk cache.
> >
>
> Is there a way to disable this aggressive swapping?
>
>
You could try tuning /proc/sys/vm/swappiness but I'm not sure sarge kernel supports it.
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