[BozemanLUG] Memory, spam and the march of progress

[Jeffrey Sharkey]

Have you, or your distro, played with /proc/sys/vm/swappiness?

I've usually seen 60 on most distros, and if it's different this might
explain your swap oddness.  :)

j

On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 8:28 AM, David Eder <david at eder.us> wrote:
> I've been running apache, mysql, postfix, named, and a full desktop for
> several years now without very many bumps, but I think I'm hitting a
> memory bump now.  I seem to be using 800+MB of swap.  I'm used to only
> seeing a few hundred K.  Needless to say, the system is too slow when
> running out of swap this much.
>
> Many will remember my rants at the meetings about KDE4 memory leaks. While
> the memory leaks are real (every changelog seems to include plugging these
> as a major feature), I do not believe that it is my real issue.
>
> I think software is just fatter in general and I've hit the limit of what
> I can do on a single box with 2GB ram.
>
> I'm looking for ways to trim the fat without loosing anything or having to
> buy anything.
>
> I've move to XFCE, dropped amavisd, spamassassin and clamav in postfix,
> reduced the spare servers for apache (might go back to lighttpd).  I may
> run without flash in Opera.  It seems to take hundreds of MB for no
> apparent reason.
>
> Any advice on further trimming, spam reduction, etc would be appreciated.
>
> I don't mind if you tell me I'm nuts or explain to me that I'm chasing my
> tail.
>
> David.
>
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