See https://www.howtoforge.com/tutorial/linux-swappiness/
Setting it to a much lower number (like 20) sounds like it would work better if your ram usage is fairly stable. Sound like, “try it and see” is called for (an painless). ../Dave On Sep 5, 2018, 6:52 AM -0400, o1bigtenor via talk <[email protected]>, wrote: > On Tue, Sep 4, 2018 at 11:16 PM, Evan Leibovitch via talk > <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 4, 2018, 10:40 PM John Weintraub, <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > > Is your swap equal to twice the amount of RAM? That's the default; I am > > > not sure where you came up with the number "60"; > > > > > > I was referring to this: > > > > https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swappiness > > > Greetings > > Article looks interesting except the systemd provisions are attributes and and > are not mentioned. Bottom of the article indicates a somewhat recent editing > date but with no mention of systemd I have further questions. The article > mentions places to change 'swappiness' and I can find the actual file but > there > is nothing in the sysctl.conf (IIRC the name) file re: swappiness. Somehow I > would prefer something that did refer to systemd foibles as well for a guide > so > as not to really pooch anything. > > I, too, am interested largely because I have lots of ram and wouldn't mind > speed enhancements. > > Regards > > Dee > --- > Talk Mailing List > [email protected] > https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
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