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Configure sensisble Virtual Memory and Swappiness settings for a Linux desktop

/etc/sysctl.d/100-vm.conf

vm.dirty_ratio = 10
vm.dirty_background_ratio = 5
vm.dirty_expire_centisecs = 2000
vm.dirty_writeback_centisecs = 1000
vm.swappiness = 10
vm.vfs_cache_pressure = 50

 

Source
https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt
Tags
sysctl

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