Swappiness default

[Colin Law]

On 23 May 2011 15:00, Alan Pope <alan at popey.com> wrote:
> On 23 May 2011 14:53, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> On https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SwapFaq#What%20is%20swappiness%20and%20how%20do%20I%20change%20it?
>> it states that the default swappiness for Ubuntu is 60 but that a
>> value of 10 is recommended for a typical desktop application.  If that
>> is correct then why does a desktop install not assume that it is
>> 'typical' and set the swappiness to 10?
>>
>
> That's community documentation. I'd ask the person who wrote it.
>
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SwapFaq?action=diff&rev2=20&rev1=18

Actually the suggestion that a figure of 5 to 10 would be better was
first added in rev 12
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SwapFaq?action=diff&rev2=12&rev1=11
by Hanusz leszek
https://launchpad.net/~leszek-skynet

I will ask him.

Colin