Thanks for confirming, Matthew! That might be a good check for the startup script, much like I think it currently complains about ulimit is not set to the Max.
On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 2:31 PM, Matthew Von-Maszewski <matth...@basho.com> wrote: > recommend value for Riak is zero. > > On Oct 16, 2013, at 4:28 PM, Alex Rice <a...@mindlube.com> wrote: > >> Just an informal poll- what is preferred for Linux vm.swappiness >> setting for Riak in a *cloud* environment? The default is 60 - a lot >> of stuff gets swapped out. This is good for OS disk cache. >> >> I am thinking vm.swappiness = 0 >> >> - Avoid slow & potentially costly I/O operations in the virtualized >> environment >> - Make it easier to see if bitcask is running low of memory, as soon >> as the Swap partition has been touched at all (1st out of memory >> condition) >> - Disk cache wont be as effective. >> - I just like seeing Swap: 0% when I log in :0 >> >> Does this setting even matter at all, practically speaking? >> >> _______________________________________________ >> riak-users mailing list >> riak-users@lists.basho.com >> http://lists.basho.com/mailman/listinfo/riak-users_lists.basho.com > _______________________________________________ riak-users mailing list riak-users@lists.basho.com http://lists.basho.com/mailman/listinfo/riak-users_lists.basho.com
