Mhm something doesn’t add up (well atleast on my system)
The kernel’s swappiness option (a sysctl parameter ranging from 0 to 100) controls how aggressively the kernel prefers to swap out pages. A lower value tells the kernel to avoid swapping whenever possible, while a higher value allows more proactive swapping. The default value is 60, and you can check it using:
cat /proc/sys/vm/swappiness
In other words, a low value (e.g., 10) means that the system prefers to keep things in RAM as long as possible. On the contrary, a high value (e.g., 80 or 100) tells the kernel to start swapping earlier to free up more cache.
I have 64 Gigs of RAM (only 8 are used by endeavour OS at all time), No Swap Partition yet my swappiness is at 60?
Is something wrong, even though I don’t feel anything off, with my System O.o?
I put 64GiB of RAM in my mini desktop just to never have to deal with swap paging. AMD with integrated GPU, so it immediately steals, like, 4GiB for graphics, but even so I think I’ve never seen it go past 50% usage.
I think 60 is just a default. That’s what mine says, too, and I have 0 swap allocated:
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem:59Gi 16Gi 2.1Gi 72Mi 41Gi 43Gi
Swap:0B 0B 0B
Mhm something doesn’t add up (well atleast on my system)
cat /proc/sys/vm/swappinessI have 64 Gigs of RAM (only 8 are used by endeavour OS at all time), No Swap Partition yet my swappiness is at 60?
Is something wrong, even though I don’t feel anything off, with my System O.o?
There’s no swap, so swappiness has no effect.
Are you me‽
I put 64GiB of RAM in my mini desktop just to never have to deal with swap paging. AMD with integrated GPU, so it immediately steals, like, 4GiB for graphics, but even so I think I’ve never seen it go past 50% usage.
I think 60 is just a default. That’s what mine says, too, and I have 0 swap allocated:
total used free shared buff/cache available Mem: 59Gi 16Gi 2.1Gi 72Mi 41Gi 43Gi Swap: 0B 0B 0Bvery nice :)
In some of my systems with a lot of RAM, I pre-cache as much as possible (DBs) and disable swap altogether.
Most people won’t notice a difference, especially if you are running on SSD. That said, swapping will kill that SSD a lot quicker.