How to change the Swappiness of your Linux system

Posted by bob on Jun 19, 2015 9:16 AM EDT
Howtoforge Linux Howtos und Tutorials		Mail this story
Print this story

Swappiness is the kernel parameter that defines how much (and how often) your Linux kernel will copy RAM contents to swap. This parameter's default value is “60” and it can take anything from “0” to “100”. The higher the value of the swappiness parameter, the more aggressively your kernel will swap.

Full Story

  Nav
» Read more about: Groups: Kernel, Linux; Story Type: News Story

« Return to the newswire homepage

This topic does not have any threads posted yet!

You cannot post until you login.