On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 10:01:38AM +0100, Richard Lamboj wrote:
>
> Good morning,
>
> is there a setting or solution which disallows a vserver guest to use
> swap(something like swappiness in the sysctl)?
>
> We have three samba servers on one vserver host. Samba does not need much of
> RAM: 50 - 250 MB. On the same maschine there are running a DNS, a netboot
> server, mail server and so on. When the smb process went into swap, then
> samba will be damn slow. So the netboot server should use swap, but the samba
> guests should only use swap if the RAM is completely full.
>
> Is it possible to set swapiness in a vserver guest?
DO NOT HIJACK THREADS!
is that really so complicated to understand?
Herbert
> Kind Regards
>
> Richard Lamboj