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Re: Bug#581488: general: lower vm.swappiness by default for desktop installations



On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 06:59:45AM -0600, Aaron Toponce wrote:
> On 5/12/2010 1:22 PM, Marcus Better wrote:
> > Recently I got the advice [1] to set vm.swappiness to 0, rather than
> > the default 60. This improved things dramatically. Apparently Eclipse
> > is no longer being swapped out preemptively all the time. The
> > difference in perceived responsiveness is spectacular.
> 
> You might also be interested in:
> 
> # sync; cat 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches

That'd be

sync; echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches



Kind regards: David Weinehall
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