[GTALUG] Swappiness

[Charles Philip Chan]

Evan Leibovitch via talk <talk at gtalug.org> writes:

Hi Evan,

> I have a desktop that, to me, seems like it's running to swap just a little
> to often and coming back to RAM just a little slower than I'd like.

This depends if you have enough RAM. I have 16 G of RAM and my
"vm.swappiness" has been set to "10" for the longest time with great
results- basically my system never touches swap.

Charles