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  • Ubuntu 10.04 swap update: It's not an Xorg bug but too much 'swappiness' - and it's easily fixed Windows Live Messenger for iPhone unveiled - Remember in December 2009 we told you Microsoft were planning a Windows Live Messenger app for iPhone?

    Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now ASHLEE VANCE 2010

  • Ubuntu 10.04 swap update: It's not an Xorg bug but too much 'swappiness' - and it's easily fixed

    Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now Mathew Ingram 2010

  • Ubuntu 10.04 swap update: It's not an Xorg bug but too much 'swappiness' - and it's easily fixed

    Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now Mathew Ingram 2010

  • Instead change the systems "swappiness" which defines how easily swap gets used.

    Planet SUSE 2009

  • For example, although not mentioned anywhere in the official doc, some Redbooks recomend: vm. swappiness ...

    eggheadcafe.com articles 2010

  • 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%.

    Ubuntu Forums E=mc2 2010

  • 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%.

    Ubuntu Forums E=mc2 2010

  • For example, although not mentioned anywhere in the official doc, some Redbooks recomend: vm. swappiness ...

    eggheadcafe.com articles 2010

  • I think it's better to use vm. swappiness = 10 vm. vfs_cache_pressure = 50 in / etc / sysctl. conf instead of disabling swap.

    Planet SUSE 2009

  • 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.

    LinuxQuestions.org youngdo 2009

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  • the tendency for a linux system to use the swap partition instead of running things quickly in memory

    May 25, 2015