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I just set swappiness to zero years ago and never looked back.

• kccqzy 5mo ago
  That’s like the complete opposite advice. Chris said the lowest recommended swappiness is 1. I have it set to 100.
  • sidewndr46 5mo ago
    Agreed, but it means I still don't run into an OOM condition abruptly since the swap is there. It turns out modern disks are pretty fast, so the system freezes for a bit as physical memory is exhausted. Then I usually stop some of what I am doing and it goes back to normal.