Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 3 Dec 2006 21:46:33 +0100 (CET) | From | Tim Schmielau <> | Subject | RE: la la la la ... swappiness |
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On Sun, 3 Dec 2006, Aucoin wrote:
> during tar extraction ... inactive pages reaches levels as high as ~375000
So why do you want the system to swap _less_? You need to find some free memory for the additional processes to run in, and you have lots of inactive pages, so I think you want to swap out _more_ pages.
I'd suggest to temporarily add a swapfile before you update your system. This can even help in bringing your memory use to the state before if you do it like this - swapon additional swapfile - update your database software - swapoff swap partition - swapon swap partition - swapoff additional swapfile
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