[mythtv-users] Somewhat OT: Compact Flash drive in an Xbox FE. Isthere any increase in speed?

Brian Wood beww at beww.org
Wed Apr 5 21:24:44 UTC 2006


On Apr 5, 2006, at 3:21 PM, David Whyte wrote:

> On 4/6/06, Wander Winkelhorst <w.winkelhorst at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I don't know if this helps, but you guys might want to try to play
>> with the /proc/sys/vm/swappiness file. This file controls what Linux'
>> VM favours, either cache (swap out programs for increased cache) or
>> programs (reduce cache instead of swapping programs out to disc)
>> so echo a value to this file like this:
>>
>> echo 0 > /proc/sys/vm/swappiness
>> or
>> echo 100 > /proc/sys/vm/swappiness
>>
>> and see if it changes the performance of your Xbox.
>>
>
> Can you cat /proc/sys/vm/swappiness first to view the original value?
> That way I can return to default if I make it worse :P

Sure, it's 60 on my Gentoo machine.


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