On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 11:24 AM, Chris Murphy <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
[root@f29h ~]# cat /proc/sys/vm/swappiness 60 This is now widely regarded as sabotage, because it's simply too aggressive for the amount of RAM we have these days compared to 4MB of RAM. Upstream is unlikely to change it, they've been beaten over the head for years about it. Try # echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/swappiness
I've seen suggestions to use 0 as well.
Now do whatever normally blows things up, and report back. I'm kinda curious. If the problem is simply too aggressive swapping, then neither zram nor zswap will make that much of a difference (it will moderate the transition to depending on swap, but once it's pathological, you'll still be screwed if this is really just a workload for which swappiness 60 is flat out bad).
I'll try it when I can. How do we change this default for Workstation? Is it a kernel tunable? Michael _______________________________________________ desktop mailing list -- desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to desktop-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
