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memory swap setting

mango555

Sat May 03, 2014 2:45:14 pm

why zorin os swapiness is 60 default?

this setting is for server OS not desktop

90% zorin os users are desktop users

i recently changed my swappiness to 10

i can feel huge performance increase

vm.swappiness=10

Wolfman

Sat May 03, 2014 8:20:34 pm

Hi,

I don't know what the default setting for Ubuntu is but you can read up on it here:

"What is swappiness and how do I change it?"

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SwapFaq