I googled that and was pleasantly surprised to learn something new.[1] But if I'm reading that right I would probably want to do both. Because overcommit setti

I googled that and was pleasantly surprised to learn something new.[1] But if I'm reading that right I would probably want to do both. Because overcommit settings seem to be a memory saving technique. To avoid needing swap by decreasing the allowed overcommit memory. Anyways, in the many years that I've been changing vm.swappiness I've never had any issues and I've always had a minimum of 8G RAM so I don't think this will be a big issue. 1. http://engineering.pivotal.io/post/virtual_memory_settings_in_linux_-_the_problem_with_overcommit/ http://engineering.pivotal.io/post/virtual_memory_settings_i...