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From: Alex Schuster <wonko@wonkology.org>
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Subject: Swap performance (was: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: pf-sources Kernel)
Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 16:17:32 +0200
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Nikos Chantziaras writes:

> On 05/25/2011 03:12 PM, Alex Schuster wrote:
> > [...] Now I have 8G, and
> > do not notice that much swapping any more. Although... right now,  swap
> > is at 600M, and the system is swapping right now. Weird. I'm running
> > rdiff- backup, this seems to increase swap size. Maybe too much of the
> > stuff it precesses is being cached? Swap is at 800M now.
> 
> You can tweak this in /etc/sysctl.conf:
> 
>    vm.swappiness = 30
> 
> Or maybe 20.  The default is 60.  IMO way too high for desktop systems.

Good idea, but I'm using 20 already.

I'll start another thread about this.

	Wonko