Debian Israel Mirror » swapiness http://www.debian.co.il Public Unique Israeli Debian Archive Sat, 29 Oct 2011 07:45:50 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 tunning swappiness http://www.debian.co.il/2010/03/tunning-swappiness/ http://www.debian.co.il/2010/03/tunning-swappiness/#comments Tue, 09 Mar 2010 08:18:16 +0000 MadDog http://www.debian.co.il/?p=96 if you want Linux machine to use less swap you can tune it by changing the value of:

/proc/sys/vm/swappiness

by default it’s set to ’60′, you can decrease it to make it use less swap memory, this means that swap memory will be more used “when needed only”.

Change the value using this command:

echo 30 > /proc/sys/vm/swappiness

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