According to Krischan Keitsch <krischan.keitsch at alumni.tu-berlin.de>:
> Higher values will instruct the kernel to use the swap file more often
> instead cleaning the cache first.
>
> You can check the actual value with:
>
> cat /proc/sys/vm/swappiness
>
> The default is 1. Seatbelt will set this value to 100.
For those who want to try this, you don't need a package:
echo 100 > /proc/sys/vm/swappiness
(Seatbelt may provide other functions, though; I don't know.)
Regards,
Steve
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