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You can see your current swappiness level by <code>cat /proc/sys/vm/swappiness</code>. The lowest accepted value is | You can see your current swappiness level by <code>cat /proc/sys/vm/swappiness</code>. The lowest accepted value is 0 while the maximum value is 200. The lowest sane value is 1 (0 causes the system to not scan for unused anonymous pages, i.e. memory freed by processes, at all). | ||
For more on tuning the swap, start with [https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Swap#swappiness ArchWiki]'s description. | For more on tuning the swap, start with [https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Swap#swappiness ArchWiki]'s description. | ||