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swap kills interactivity and is really, really bad on linux. No matter how |
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much you stripe it. Swap is a true horror. So setting swappiness to 100 (which |
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means: keep caches alive, no matter what and swap the hell out of it) is a |
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really bad idea. In my experience it is better to have a very low swappiness |
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and let the kernel get the occasional data from disk, than to swap to the same |
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disks. Strange eh? |
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But better to wait 1.5s longer for konqueror to display a directory than to |
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have a jerky mouse and input lag because of swap. Remember: the kernel ALWAYS |
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swaps out the wrong stuff. |
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I have swappiness at 60 - and back in the 4GB days at 0. Because swap sucks so |
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much. |
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You are not required to believe that. But just google. |