Nikos Chantziaras writes: > On 05/25/2011 03:12 PM, Alex Schuster wrote: > > [...] Now I have 8G, and > > do not notice that much swapping any more. Although... right now, swap > > is at 600M, and the system is swapping right now. Weird. I'm running > > rdiff- backup, this seems to increase swap size. Maybe too much of the > > stuff it precesses is being cached? Swap is at 800M now. > > You can tweak this in /etc/sysctl.conf: > > vm.swappiness = 30 > > Or maybe 20. The default is 60. IMO way too high for desktop systems.
Good idea, but I'm using 20 already. I'll start another thread about this. Wonko