On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 4:39 AM, Yves-Alexis Perez <[email protected]> wrote: > On jeu., 2010-05-13 at 08:41 +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: >> > I realise that I don't have any solid evidence that this is a good >> > move, maybe others can fill in with their experience. The goal here is >> > to improve desktop responsiveness when multi-tasking, especially on >> > machines with reasonably large RAM and one or more large applications. >> > >> > [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-kde/2010/05/msg00313.html >> > [2] <https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SwapFaq#What is swappiness and how >> > do I change it?> [3] http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/5481/ > > I don't have much idea about side effects, especially on machine without > “reasonably large” RAM. I'm gonna try swapiness=0 for some time, and > maybe other people could try and report back, but I'd prefer to stay on > the safe side. > > Cheers, > -- > Yves-Alexis >
I was under the (perhaps mistaken) impression that a value of zero would effectively disable swapping altogether. Best, -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
