Postpone/avoid swaping while there is still free RAM.
- From: "Alexander Georgiev" <alexander.georgiev (at) gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 20:04:44 +0300
Hi people,
I got Centos 4.3 on a 1GB Pentium IV machine. The output of free
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$ free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 1026896 573848 453048 0 2988 131712
-/+ buffers/cache: 439148 587748
Swap: 1052248 137568 914680
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There is plenty of free ram, but the kernel prefers to swap unused
pages to disk. And later I have to wait for them to be unswapped, the
Desktop looses its promptness - annoying.
In win2k and winXP there is a registry key property which prevents
swapping while there is still RAM.
Do you know whether I can achieve the same in linux?
Best regards!
alex
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