[ale] 16 Gigs of RAM and still swapping!

[smcbrien at gmail.com (Scott McBrien)]

No, the Linux Kernel doesn't utilize STVX (Sticky) on executables.   
Don't know if it'll help, but you might try reducing the swappiness  
value for the kernel.

-Scott

On Aug 21, 2009, at 4:26 PM, Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer at gmail.com>  
wrote:

> Actually I do have a question.
>
> I have 2 big tasks running.  The more important one to me is only 2GB
> of Virtual Ram per top.
>
> Is there a way I can keep that task in ram? I don't want to restart  
> it.
>
> Greg
>
> On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 4:23 PM, Greg  
> Freemyer<greg.freemyer at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Nothing else to say.
>>
>> I've asked the software vendor and they say, "we recommend 64 GB of
>> ram"  ie. swapping is no surprise.
>>
>> My cpu is only 80% idle waiting on swap to kick in, so at least I'm
>> getting some work done.  This task should finish by morning.
>>
>> Greg
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