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Author: Brian Cluff
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Subject: Re: swapiness
Oops, I forgot to mention that you'll need to reboot for the setting to
take effect.

Brian Cluff

On 03/01/2016 08:45 AM, Brian Cluff wrote:
> Check out Hans' "Anatomy of the command line" talk that he gave at
> SCaLE. It will show you in detail why that didn't work.... you'll learn
> a lot. It's at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yx_dCte3dEE
>
> As for setting the swappiness permanently create and edit
> /etc/sysctl.d/10-swappiness.conf, it probably won't exist by default.
> Then put a single like it that is:
>
> vm.swappiness=10
>
> If you want your swappiness set to 0, just change the 10 to 0
>
> Brian Cluff
>
> On 03/01/2016 06:26 AM, Michael wrote:
>> I understand. The computer would not allow me to use sudo with
>> redirection .
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 1:09 AM, Michael <
>> <mailto:bmike1@gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     fyi:  when I attempted to save it in gedit it gave me the permission
>>     denied error.

>>
>>     On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 1:08 AM, Michael <
>>     <mailto:bmike1@gmail.com>> wrote:

>>
>>         What am i doing incorrectly?

>>
>>         $  sudo cat /proc/sys/vm/swappiness
>>         60
>>         bmike1@MikesBeast ~ $  sudo cat 30>> /proc/sys/vm/swappiness
>>         bash: /proc/sys/vm/swappiness: Permission denied
>>         bmike1@MikesBeast ~ $ sudo gedit
>>         bmike1@MikesBeast ~ $ sudo gedit /proc/sys/vm/swappiness

>>
>>         ** (gedit:10639): WARNING **: Hit unhandled case 13 (Error
>>         writing to file: Invalid argument) in parse_error.

>>
>>         ** (gedit:10639): WARNING **: Hit unhandled case 13 (Error
>>         writing to file: Invalid argument) in parse_error.
>>         bmike1@MikesBeast ~ $  sudo cat >> /proc/sys/vm/swappiness<<eof
>>          > 1
>>          > eof
>>         bash: /proc/sys/vm/swappiness: Permission denied
>>         bmike1@MikesBeast ~ $  sudo cat >> /proc/sys/vm/swappiness<<eof
>>         1
>>         eof
>>         ^C
>>         bmike1@MikesBeast ~ $ sudo cat /proc/sys/vm/swappiness
>>         1

>>
>>         WHATEVER! lol

>>
>>         On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 12:43 AM, Michael <
>>         <mailto:bmike1@gmail.com>> wrote:

>>
>>             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
>>             < <mailto:kevin@fries-biro.com>> 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" <
>>                 <mailto:bmike1@gmail.com>> wrote:

>>
>>                     swapiness=..... 0? Remember; I am
>> computer-illiterate!

>>
>>                     On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 11:47 PM, Todd Millecam
>>                     < <mailto:tyggna@gmail.com>> 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
>>                         < <mailto:bmike1@gmail.com>>
>> wrote:

>>
>>                             What do you recommend you reduce swapiness
>>                             to for machines that have plenty of memory
>>                             that will probably never be filled?

>>
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