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Re: kernel swap question



Michael:

Interesting. That will just not use swap? So, it will FIFO pages into
physical memory?



On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 3:29 PM, Michael <misha@netspark.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 06:28:31PM -0400, Mag Gam wrote:
>> I have a system with 32GB of RAM. The application is designed so it
>> does not do sequential reads and it does random operations. The
>> application memory intensive and I would like it to not swap. I want
>> it to use physical memory as much as possible. Once the memory is read
>> and operated on, I want that page to disappear and not even goto
>> paging status. What is the best VM tuning for this?
>
> Add to /etc/sysctl.conf this string vm.swappiness=0
>
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