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How to change the Swappiness of your Linux system

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Bill Toulas
Jul 17, 2019

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.
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