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I actually did this on a old laptop, setup 200mb of swap for 4gb of ram. And it caused huge problems for me, would run out of swap while having plenty of free

by phire 9y ago

I actually did this on a old laptop, setup 200mb of swap for 4gb of ram. And it caused huge problems for me, would run out of swap while having plenty of free memory and then go cripplingly slow.

inamberclad 9y ago
Set the swappiness lower.
- AstralStorm 9y ago
  That only delays the inevitable. Try setting overcommit to 2 and ratio to 100, then note apps crashing.
- tmyklebu 9y ago
  It doesn't go lower than 0. Swapping can still hose your machine when swappiness is set to 0.