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Ubuntu 10.04 swap update: It's not an Xorg bug but too much 'swappiness' - and it's easily fixed
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Ubuntu 10.04 swap update: It's not an Xorg bug but too much 'swappiness' - and it's easily fixed
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Instead change the systems "swappiness" which defines how easily swap gets used.
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For example, although not mentioned anywhere in the official doc, some Redbooks recomend: vm. swappiness ...
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I have set the vm. swappiness parameter to 95 but my swap partition is still not being used, even when the memory usage goes up to 90%.
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I have set the vm. swappiness parameter to 95 but my swap partition is still not being used, even when the memory usage goes up to 90%.
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For example, although not mentioned anywhere in the official doc, some Redbooks recomend: vm. swappiness ...
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I think it's better to use vm. swappiness = 10 vm. vfs_cache_pressure = 50 in / etc / sysctl. conf instead of disabling swap.
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I've checked swapon - s (which says we're using 0 bytes out of 16GB of swap), I've checked swappiness (60), I've tried upping the swap to 32GB, all to no avail.
alexz commented on the word swappiness
the tendency for a linux system to use the swap partition instead of running things quickly in memory
May 25, 2015