Tuning Linux VM swapping

Lank writes "Kernel developers started discussing the pros and cons of swapping to disk on the Linux Kernel mailing list. KernelTrap has coverage of the story on their homepage. Andrew Morton comments, 'My point is that decreasing the tendency of the kernel to swap stuff out is wrong. You really don't want hundreds of megabytes of BloatyApp's untouched memory floating about in the machine. Get it out on the disk, use the memory for something useful.' Personally, I just try to keep my memory usage below the physical memory in my machine, but I guess that's not always possible..."

Ob. /. joke

[Anonymous Coward]

First swap!

Windows already has this

[novakane007]

Under the performance tab you can use the slider to tune the machine for 'foreground' or 'background' apps.

TLA

[Anonymous Coward]

No, no, a TLA is a Three Letter Acronym!

Re:God no...

[mdfst13]

Don't you know?

It's impossible to help people in XP. :)

Re:This reminds me of an old convo I had ...

[Vann_v2]

English has been doing fine for a while now without you defending her. Go home, eat a sandwich, and let English take care of herself. Thanks.

Re:God no...

[Spackler]

And I would like to thank God for this being so intuative. It was right on the tip of my tounge the whole time.

Re:God no...

[dasmegabyte]

And here, I thought swappiness was a warm gun.