On 09/07/2007 02:33 PM, David Brodbeck wrote:
[...] There's a good summary of the arguments for and against tweaking it here:http://kerneltrap.org/node/30002.4.x didn't have any way to tune this. But the virtual memory system in 2.4.x has so many unpleasant behaviors, anyway, that I'd really suggest upgrading if you're experiencing problems in this area.
Thanks for the link. I installed 2.6.22 onto Sarge by compiling from source. I'll try swappiness at 30 for a while.