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Optimum Swappiness for a Linux System
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I have a 64-Bit Linux PC with 4 GB of RAM. How can I find the optimum value of swappiness (/proc/sys/vm/swappiness) to be set? The default is 60 and I don't think it works best for everyone. I am looking for an answer which possibly makes use of the outputs of the commands free, top, ps etc I can a…
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This is SuperUser, so I assume this is a desktop system. For a server system, the answer might be entirely different. For desktop systems, a high swappiness (such as 60) can be very bad for interactivity, namely when you often run over 50% of RAM us…
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