<div>Thanks for the suggestion. I believe optimal settings for these parameters vary from computer to computer. For low-level items like these, we defer to the Ubuntu Desktop team's decisions and defaults.</div><br><div>Thanks!</div><div>Sean</div><br><div class="gmail_quote_attribution">On Mar 16 2020, at 7:20 pm, Yousuf Philips <ypharis@gmail.com> wrote:</div><blockquote><div><div>Hi Team,</div><div><br></div><div>Was having a conversation on twitter about my suggested default presets and someone suggested that we change our default settings for swappiness and vfs_cache_pressure. I don't have enough knowledge about these underlying settings when it comes to desktop performance, so i'm passing it along for your review.</div><div><br></div><div><div>The person mentioned, "In terms of UX on Ubuntu derivatives, sysctl.conf is a big one -- my settings are vm.swappiness=1 / vm.vfs_cache_pressure=50 / vm.dirty_background_bytes=16777216 / vm.dirty_bytes=50331648 ..."</div></div><div><a href="https://link.getmailspring.com/link/C46EBC51-4B57-4B4B-ABF5-A12396272198@getmailspring.com/0?redirect=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2Fvirtualdebris%2Fstatus%2F1239239128560140289&recipient=eHVidW50dS1kZXZlbEBsaXN0cy51YnVudHUuY29t" title="https://twitter.com/virtualdebris/status/1239239128560140289">https://twitter.com/virtualdebris/status/1239239128560140289</a></div><div><br></div><div><div>The person later on in the conversation linked to the below link about it</div></div><div><a href="https://link.getmailspring.com/link/C46EBC51-4B57-4B4B-ABF5-A12396272198@getmailspring.com/1?redirect=https%3A%2F%2Fvirtualdebris.co.uk%2Fblog%2F0508A1B4%2Fproject-zebra-where-ive-always-been-going-home-the-long-way-round&recipient=eHVidW50dS1kZXZlbEBsaXN0cy51YnVudHUuY29t" title="https://virtualdebris.co.uk/blog/0508A1B4/project-zebra-where-ive-always-been-going-home-the-long-way-round">https://virtualdebris.co.uk/blog/0508A1B4/project-zebra-where-ive-always-been-going-home-the-long-way-round</a></div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div><div>Yousuf</div></div></div><div>--</div><div>xubuntu-devel mailing list</div><div>xubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com</div><div>https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel</div></blockquote><img class="mailspring-open" alt="Sent from Mailspring" width="0" height="0" style="border:0; width:0; height:0;" src="https://link.getmailspring.com/open/C46EBC51-4B57-4B4B-ABF5-A12396272198@getmailspring.com?me=28c5a1b3&recipient=eHVidW50dS1kZXZlbEBsaXN0cy51YnVudHUuY29t">