Tip for Desktop Memory management, new vm tuning option

[Rashkae]

On 2019-07-30 10:24 a.m., Bret Busby wrote:

> I have looked in the file, to find whether a similar (with a lesser
> setting) line exists, and did not find one.
> 
> If the line is inserted in the file, where should it be inserted, or,
> does it not matter?
> 
> 

You can just append it to the end, but no, it doesn't matter.
sudo cp /etc/sysctl.conf /etc/sysctl.conf.bak
sudo echo "vm.watermark_scale_factor=500" >> /etc/sysctl.conf

Should do the trick, be very careful if typing those you use >> and not
just a single >