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Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2006 16:27:16 -0300
From: "Matheus Izvekov" <mizvekov@gmail.com>
To: "Lee Revell" <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
Subject: Re: Idea about a disc backed ram filesystem
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On 6/9/06, Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-06-09 at 12:07 -0300, Matheus Izvekov wrote:
> > Ok, but reality is that, even if i setup a swap partition with the
> > most lazy swapiness, it will swap my processes out. Is there a
> > pratical way to pin all processes to ram or otherwise tell the vm to
> > never swap any process? If there is, then you are right, there is no
> > point in doing this.
> >
>
> echo 0 > /proc/sys/vm/swappiness
>
> Lee

Sorry, i took a look at the code which handles this and swappiness = 0
doesnt seem to imply that process memory will never be swapped out.