Thread: How to set swappiness?
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memoryguy is offline memoryguy
2010-04-01 , 14:44
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#9
Originally Posted by Rob1n View Post
Just echo a value to /proc/sys/vm/swappiness (as root). There doesn't appear to be sysctl on the N900, so persisting the changes would be a bit trickier.
I updated my swappiness a couple months ago... I think I found a spot somewhere in the init scripts... if I recall correctly there was a comment saying to put updates to /proc stuff there... I think... I forget now and don't have the device handy.

I think it defaults to swapiness 100, which I think means "go ahead and swap as much as you want" ... which didn't seem right to me so I changed it to 0... not sure if I've noticed much difference... I should change it back again and see...