Tips

[m654321]

Hi then00b,

Another tip that I've used, and you might try, to improve the running of your setup, is to reduce the swappiness of your hard drive.  This may well have been described elsewhere on the forum.  If you have a solid state drive then this does not apply.

Using your terminal, type the following:

Code:

sudo leafpad /etc/sysctl.conf

- the configuration file will open
- add the following lines at the bottom of that file:

Code:

#
# Swappiness
vm.swappiness=10

After rebooting the swappiness is set from the default value of 60 to a value of 10. This can be checked by running the following command:

Code:

sudo cat /proc/sys/vm/swappiness

The swap tendency can have a value from 0 (fully off) to 100 (the swap file is constantly used and so may slow your PC).

A workable and practical rule for changing the swappiness value can be:
1 GB or more of RAM: 10
Less than 1GB of RAM: 1

Regards
Mike