echo 10 > /proc/sys/vm/swappiness - opinion?

[takenp]

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root# cat /proc/sys/vm/swappiness 
60

It's the default value in TahrPuppy. Is it ok? Your opinion.
I set it to 10 having 1Gb on my netbook.

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swapiness is the value of the free memory in percentage after that kernel will start swapping onto HDD. More about:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swappiness

[seneka77]

Nice post. Also slacko63 sets the default value to swapping, 60.

How it works now your system with 10?
With just 1GB looks maybe risky to set up on 10, but of course, it depends on the workload of your system, it could be enough if you don't open so many heavy tasks at the same time.
My laptop has 4GB RAM and swapping become active very very unfrequented times. Apply swapping in your system is also very related to the quality of your hard disk.

[takenp]

How it works now your system with 10?

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It looks like much better! Frankly I have changed HDD to SSD too and its hard to recognize purely but feels like 10 is better than 60 )

[Mike Walsh]

Hi.

Partsman has put together a .pet for this, which will automatically set your swappiness to '10' for you:-

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 28f2699649

I use it myself. Works very well, too.


Mike.