Re: memory usage

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Subject: Re: memory usage
From: Marcus Better <marcus@better.se>
Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 21:39:57 +0200
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Florian Kulzer wrote:
> with such large applications. Have you already tried to set
> /proc/sys/vm/swappiness to zero?

After some initial testing, I think it did the trick! Amazing, thanks a lot!

The default swappiness setting (60) seems to be a horrible choice for 
desktops.

Cheers,

Marcus
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