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 <talk@gtalug.org>, wrote:
On Tue, Sep 4, 2018 at 11:16 PM, Evan Leibovitch via talk
<talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
On Tue, Sep 4, 2018, 10:40 PM John Weintraub, <johnweintraub@gmail.com>
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
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