Re: [gentoo-user] Re: webrsync {SOLVED}

[Robert Bridge]

> On 29 Feb 2020, at 13:57, Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> wrote:
>
> Maybe something has changed in the last few years and swap is actually
> useful, but I'm skeptical.  I always tend to end up with GB of free
> RAM and a churning hard drive when I enable it.  On SSD I'm sure it
> will perform better, but then I'm running through erase cycles
> instead.

It may be a stupid question, but are you setting vm.swappiness to a reasonable value? 

The default setting of 60 does tend to lead to swapping far earlier than is reasonable for modern desktops with 8+GB RAM.

Cheers,
Robert.