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Oracle SOA Suite 11g Performance Tuning Cookbook

The swappiness level of the Linux kernel determines how likely it is to swap memory pages out. Setting a low value can improve the performance of Oracle SOA Suite.
You will need to be running Oracle SOA Suite 11g on a Linux box, and have root
or sudo
access in order to change the kernel settings.
To set the Linux kernel swappiness to low, perform the following steps:
Log in to the box as root
.
Check the current swappiness setting as follows:
$ cat /proc/sys/vm/swappiness 60
Edit the file /etc/sysctl.conf
, and set the property vm.swappiness
to a lower value. We suggest starting with 0
if you have plenty of physical memory on the machine.
Save the file.
Restart your Linux server for the change to take effect.
Check if the swappiness setting has been applied, like this:
$ cat /proc/sys/vm/swappiness 0
The vm.swappiness
property of the Linux kernel determines how likely the kernel is to swap a page out of memory. Swappiness...