swapiness

[Michael]

I understand. The computer would not allow me to use sudo with redirection .

On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 1:09 AM, Michael <bmike1 at 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 <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> What am i doing incorrectly?
>>
>> $  sudo cat /proc/sys/vm/swappiness
>> 60
>> bmike1 at MikesBeast ~ $  sudo cat 30>> /proc/sys/vm/swappiness
>> bash: /proc/sys/vm/swappiness: Permission denied
>> bmike1 at MikesBeast ~ $ sudo gedit
>> bmike1 at 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 at MikesBeast ~ $  sudo cat >> /proc/sys/vm/swappiness<<eof
>> > 1
>> > eof
>> bash: /proc/sys/vm/swappiness: Permission denied
>> bmike1 at MikesBeast ~ $  sudo cat >> /proc/sys/vm/swappiness<<eof
>> 1
>> eof
>> ^C
>> bmike1 at MikesBeast ~ $ sudo cat /proc/sys/vm/swappiness
>> 1
>>
>> WHATEVER! lol
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 12:43 AM, Michael <bmike1 at 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 <kevin at 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" <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> swapiness=..... 0? Remember; I am computer-illiterate!
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 11:47 PM, Todd Millecam <tyggna at 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 <bmike1 at 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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