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On 25/10/12 21:26, Rob Beard wrote: > > Nice... just got 4GB ram here. > > Rob > > Swappiness is still a touchy subject but 4Gb of RAM in a typical PC is quite enough - if your swap partition isn't on a SSD or other high IOPS device try: sudo sysctl -w vm.swappiness=0 People say you shouldn't really manually mess around with this on modern kernels but it can make a difference (your system is wasting time pre-emptively swapping out to a slow I/O magnetic disk). You can always use sar/collectl to monitor actual memory and swap usage for a quantitative analysis to determine if it actually speeds up your system. To make any permanent changes edit /etc/sysctl.conf. Cheers -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq