have a desktop. in any case I searched google this swapiness question and here is what it says: " After rebooting the swappiness is set to 10. This can be checked by running the following command in a terminal: sudo cat /proc/sys/vm/swappiness. The swap tendency can have a value of 0 (fully off) to 100 (swap is constantly used). A workable and practical rule for changing the swappiness can be: 1 GB or more RAM: 10 Less than 1 GB of RAM: 1 *Tip:* Your computer has less than 512 MB ​​of RAM? Try to change the swap tendency to 0 (zero). With lower amount of memory installed, this might even give a better result then changing the swap tendency to 1. " Why is 0 better than 1? On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 12:38 AM, Kevin Fries wrote: > Linux is not Windows. Linux can, and will run without using swap if it > can. Linux will remain RAM resident unless it has to. So, what they are > telling you is this... If you don't need swap, don't define it. > > There is one exception to this rule, since you are using a laptop. There > are two instant on technologies, sleep and hibernate. One of the will > stash the state to RAM, the other to swap. I forget which is which. But > if it needs to go to swap, you will need a swap file equal to RAM if you > use that feature. > > Kevin > On Feb 29, 2016 10:32 PM, "Michael" wrote: > >> swapiness=..... 0? Remember; I am computer-illiterate! >> >> On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 11:47 PM, Todd Millecam wrote: >> >>> Disable swap. Never activate it on boot. If you start reaching oom >>> conditions, turn it back on. >>> >>> On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 9:38 PM, Michael wrote: >>> >>>> What do you recommend you reduce swapiness to for machines that have >>>> plenty of memory that will probably never be filled? >>>> >>>> -- >>>> :-)~MIKE~(-: >>>> >>>> --------------------------------------------------- >>>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >>>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>>> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Todd Millecam >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------- >>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> :-)~MIKE~(-: >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- :-)~MIKE~(-: