<div>On 3/1/06, Brian C. Huffman <<a href="mailto:huffman@graze.net">huffman@graze.net</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> All, I hate to open up this can of worms....b/c I know that it's been discussed in depth before, but what is the current sense as far as swappiness settings for desktop machines and in specific laptops? I have just gone back and read a lot of the emails regarding this including the ones from Andrew Morton where he says that he runs his own desktop machines with a swappiness of 100. Unfortunately, there are a couple of differences for me: 1) I'm using a laptop and the drive is generally slower than desktops and 2) I don't often (if ever) compile a kernel so I'm not looking for a faster long-term experience (as with compiles). I'm looking for snappiness and low latency on *any* apps that I have loaded on the desktop: window manager (metacity), firefox, openoffice, evolution, and even VMWare. So what are the thoughts / experiences of others? I've just set my swappiness to 10 from 60 and it *appears* to me that things are snappier and open quicker. I'll have to watch this long term to see if my initial impressions are accurate. Also, would the choice of IO scheduler matter here? I see that CFQ is the default. <a href="http://www.redhat.com/magazine/008jun05/features/schedulers/"> http://www.redhat.com/magazine/008jun05/features/schedulers/</a></blockquote><div> Gives you some idea about the schedulers, you can just add a grub line to test the other 3. </div> </div>