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Why most people recommend to reduce swappiness to 10-20?
I have seen in several site which recommend to reduce swappiness to 10-20 for better performance.
http://community.linuxmint.com/tutorial/view/998
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Ubuntu swappiness
I have a laptop with 4 GB RAM and i3 processor. It runs very fast when I use windows, but it keeps slowing down on my Ubuntu when I use it continuously. I noticed that 500mb+ swap is getting used even ...
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Swappiness setting ignored in systcl.conf
My Ubuntu 12.04 x64 on Dell XPS 15 with 8GB of RAM has been really sluggish.
After some searching I came across post about swappiness. I noticed that swappiness on my system was reported as 0 which ...
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Disk I/O makes desktop unusable. System consumes too much memory
I have a long-term problem with my Acer TravelMate 3002WTMi (Pentium-M 1.73Ghz, 512 MB RAM) and Xubuntu 11.10. Whenever load increases machine tends to slow down to the point that it's totally ...
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Ubuntu sometimes starts swapping like crazy for no reason
Every once in a while, my Ubuntu starts using the hard disk like crazy, and for 3 minutes I can't move the mouse nor access any console, even CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE and CTRL-ALT-F1 do nothing.
It is ...
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Would I benefit from reducing, or increasing swappiness?
I've read a few articles now about changing the swappiness level on Ubuntu to possibly increase performance. But I'm very unfamiliar with how swappiness works, would I benefit from increasing, or ...
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How to empty swap if there is free RAM?
When I open a RAM-intensive app (VirtualBox set at 2 Gb RAM), Some swap space is generally used, depending on what else I have open at the time.
However, when I quit that last application, the 2 Gb ...
