-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 09/01/2020 16.02, Anton Aylward wrote: | On 09/01/2020 08:56, Carlos E. R. wrote: |>> If you are using the default setting of '60' that means the |>> kernel will swap when RAM reaches 40% capacity. I consider |>> that ridiculous. As it is, you are only using 50% of your RAM |>> (total=8.0G, used=4.0G) Try setting it to 10 |>> |>> sudo sysctl vm.swappiness=10 |>> |>> flush your swap then continuing |> I'm using defaults, and I'm not chainging them. It would make my |> system slower. | | HUMBUG! | | I'm using rotating rust so any swap activity AT ALL would slow my | system. With swappiness=10 I get no swap to rotating rust to slow | my system. | | If YOU set swappiness=10 you'll simply get less, perhaps non, swap | to your SSD. It will affect nothing else. And that's a bad thing. | It has not altered the tuning, the rate of recirculation or other | characteristics of your virtual memory system. That is a separate | matter. All it has done is changed the THRESHOLD at which swapping | starts. | | OBVIOUSLY, to me, with slow rotating rust, this matter greatly. BUT | it matters to you as well. Although the write to a SSD is fast it | is not instantaneous, and there is still the overhead of the doing | of it. Avoiding that might not seem much, but it is there. | | Asserting that you system will run slower because it is not writing | to swap so much, so readily, so unnecessarily, is not the case. | | While it is obvious in my case, it is also true your in your case. | It is a degree, not an absolute. Nope. - -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.1 x86_64 at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iF0EARECAB0WIQQZEb51mJKK1KpcU/W1MxgcbY1H1QUCXheIwwAKCRC1MxgcbY1H 1SqZAJoDzvtJ3OctXBRTeRiaCsLn+frpBACfdQSxdftdvfIbD8Lnu1nf8LUc3og= =vdxE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org