tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17885055.post112947702864945406..comments2012-02-20T06:09:59.429-05:00Julio Merinohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08233346614736256024noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17885055.post-1129718962138525022005-10-19T06:49:00.001-04:002005-10-19T06:49:00.001-04:00[Originally posted at 2005-04-06 04:48 am UTC]<BR/><BR/>That's what I do, with slightly different values. But the machine kept swapping before the upgrade, so maybe it was really short on ram. Thanks though.Julio M. Merino Vidalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08233346614736256024noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17885055.post-1129718942260806532005-10-19T06:49:00.000-04:002005-10-19T06:49:00.000-04:00[Originally posted at 2005-04-06 01:31 am UTC]<BR/><BR/>If you don't want to use swap, try decreasing vm.file{max,min}. For example on my server, I use vm.filemax=5 and vm.filemin=0, hope that will help you.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17885055.post-1129718912905376692005-10-19T06:48:00.000-04:002005-10-19T06:48:00.000-04:00[Originally posted at 2005-04-05 02:39 pm UTC]<BR/><BR/>I haven't seen it swaping any more since the upgrade, and I've built the whole KDE and run multiple CVS update processes (even concurrently); these two operations together use lots of files and memory.<BR/><BR/>Ok, I actually have vm.filemin=5 and vm.filemax=10 in /etc/sysctl.conf (2 and 4 respectively on other machines), so that might be the difference with your system. The defaults for those two variables are too big.Julio M. Merino Vidalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08233346614736256024noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17885055.post-1129718876088648462005-10-19T06:47:00.000-04:002005-10-19T06:47:00.000-04:00[Originally posted at 2005-04-04 01:14 am UTC]<BR/><BR/>No question going from 256 to 2Gb made my laptop hum! -but UVM is still a queen bitch sometimes, cvs update (even with all cvs/Root linked to one file) is deadly to other processes, dump|restore pipes cream the machine, its far from easy to understand the VM tuning implications of being self-hosted on one box, depending on X as well as shell, and then wanting to thrash the bejazus out of it compiling or walking the FS looking/touching many small files.<BR/><BR/>-GeorgeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com