Bug 122126 – RFE: add control for /proc/sys/vm/swappiness

Bug 122126 - RFE: add control for /proc/sys/vm/swappiness

Summary:	RFE: add control for /proc/sys/vm/swappiness

Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX

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Product:	Fedora
Classification:	Fedora
Component:	system-config-proc (Show other bugs)
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Hardware:	All Linux

Priority	medium Severity medium
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Assigned To:	Harald Hoyer
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Keywords:	FutureFeature

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Reported:	2004-04-30 14:01 EDT by Matthew Miller
Modified:	2007-11-30 17:10 EST (History)
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Last Closed:	2004-07-13 10:01:36 EDT
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Description Matthew Miller 2004-04-30 14:01:58 EDT

As per this thread http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/3000 and the
resulting hoopla on slashdot -- it'd be nice to have an easy gui tool
for tuning the kernel's preference for swapping. A lot of people
disagree on what the correct policy ought to be -- and indeed, it's
different for a lot of situations -- so having it tunable via the gui
program seems desirable.

Comment 1 Matthew Miller 2004-05-06 18:03:53 EDT

There's now a more detailed story on this on LWN --
<http://lwn.net/Articles/83588/>.

Seems likely to be one of the most popular values to tweak.

Comment 2 Harald Hoyer 2004-07-13 10:01:36 EDT

sorry but s-c-proc is now deprecated...

Comment 3 Matthew Miller 2004-07-13 10:14:22 EDT

Oh. :)

Is it replaced by something, or is there a new magical thing which
automatically does the right thing for all situations and makes all
people happy? :)

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