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Linux Tuning The Virtual Memory (VM) Subsystem

[ Thanks to An Anonymous Reader for
this link. ]

“Linux allows you to tune the VM subsystem. However,
tuning the memory subsystem is a challenging task. Wrong settings
can affect the overall performance of your system. I suggest you
modify one setting at a time and monitor your system for sometime.
If performance increased keep the settings else revert back.

“Say Hello To /proc/sys/vm

“The files in this directory can be used to tune the operation
of the virtual memory (VM) subsystem of the Linux kernel:

cd /proc/sys/vm
ls -l


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