The term swappiness probably sounds absolutely ridiculous to you, but it’s actually a real Linux kernel parameter that controls how readily the system swaps out runtime memory from RAM pages over to the swap file or partition. Swappiness is expressed as a percentage out of a possible 100.
The code vm.swappiness = 100 would swap so aggressively that your system would be almost unusuable while vm.swappiness = 0 would only swap to prevent an out of memory halt.
Ubuntu Linux as well as the LXDE-based Lubuntu, Xfce-based Xubuntu and all other *Buntu Linux systems default to vm.swappiness = 60, which is fine for servers, but it’s too aggressive a policy for most home and mobile device users. There’s a way to correct this however.
Configuring *Buntu swappiness.
Get to a graphical command line either by holding CTRL, ALT and T or opening it from a root menu depending on how you have Ubuntu, Lubuntu or Xubuntu configured.
Then type the command
followed by enter.
You’ll need to either run sudo sysctl -p from the command line or reboot to make the change take. After that type swapon -s to make sure that you’re not using more of the swap file than you should be.
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