Previous experience with freesco was that if I had a swap file the Hard disk kept getting spun up and down (for no real reason).
My solution was to turn off the swap file and after this the harddisk very rarely ran at all.
I have turned harddisk spindown on using hdparm -S but the harddisk seems to never spin down.
I did a check fo memory usage:
[root@SpocksBrain /proc]# cat meminfo
total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached:
Mem: 133795840 76083200 57712640 0 23572480 29167616
Swap: 268845056 0 268845056
MemTotal: 130660 kB
MemFree: 56360 kB
MemShared: 0 kB
Buffers: 23020 kB
Cached: 28484 kB
BigTotal: 0 kB
BigFree: 0 kB
SwapTotal: 262544 kB
SwapFree: 262544 kB
and decided that maybe he wasn't really using the swap file anyway,
so I did a cat on swaps and found that hda5 help the swap file.
So I did a swapoff /dev/hda5.
All seems ok so far, any thoughts?
I assume I will need to add the swapoff command to my /etc/rc.local file?
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