Swappiness default

[Alan Pope]

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
https://launchpad.net/~davidgn
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DavidCOG

Al.