Thread: System Slow Down Every 3 Days - Possible Memory Leak?
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2010-07-23 , 04:25
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Originally Posted by javispedro View Post
Btw, if writes are slowed down, wouldn't a heavy swapiness actually help -- as it would nice to keep as much free RAM as possible to minimize the amount of frames to page out when you're interacting with the device?
Not really. If you compare the amount of free RAM with swappiness set to 100 and 30, you will see that there is no difference. I guess it all depends on how much free memory you have got to begin with and what your swap device performance is. Ours is dismal.

BTW, there is another parameter there, called page-cluster. Maemo5 has it set to 128kB at the moment. It may be of some interest to play with it.
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