Configuring disk cache

[Robert Brockway]

On Sun, 20 Jun 2004, Jing Su wrote:

> there's a file inside your /proc tree that you can set to determine how
> aggressively your kernel will swap out applications for buffers and
> caches.
>
> /proc/sys/vm/swappiness

That is for 2.6 afaik (but I do not have a 2.6 box at my disposal right
now to check).  The exact files used to modify swapping aggression have
varied between versions numerous times.

Rob

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