Thread: How to set swappiness?
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Rob1n is offline Rob1n
2010-04-01 , 15:02
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Originally Posted by TheSacredSoul View Post
From what I've read, the sweet spot is 60... I just set mine to 60. Shall give it a try. Thanks for your help. And for anyone who wants to know the command is

echo 60 /proc/sys/vm/swappiness
The sweet spot will be very much dependent on the ratio between the memory performance and the media performance. That will be drastically different on a standard desktop PC (with very high-speed RAM and pretty slow hard drive media) than on the N900 (with slower RAM and higher-speed flash memory media).

And you've missed the critical '>' in the command you've given there.
 

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