Sunday, 25 October 2009

How to Tune Swap Setting on Linux for Maximum Performance

How to Tune Swap Setting on Linux for Maximum Performance: "HANDLE WITH CARE

Since 2.6, there has been a way to tune how much Linux favors swapping out to disk compared to shrinking the caches when memory gets full.

ghoti adds: 'When an application needs memory and all the RAM is fully occupied, the kernel has two ways to free some memory at its disposal: it can either reduce the disk cache in the RAM by eliminating the oldest data or it may swap some


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