Been using ubuntu for 5 years on the desktop, only just found out about this it sucks the ubuntu desktop pacakge should set this value
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/516834 Title: bad default swappiness for desktop systems Status in Default settings for Lubuntu: New Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu: Won't Fix Status in “procps” package in Ubuntu: Won't Fix Status in “linux” package in openSUSE: New Bug description: I am reporting this as a kubuntu-desktop bug, but I imagine it will apply equally to all desktop flavours. I did a clean install of Kubuntu on my laptop, which has 3GB RAM. I didn't create a swap partition. Afterwards I installed swapd and set it running. The performance was terrible. There was an awful lot of unnecessary memory swapping which slowed the machine to a crawl. I fixed this by changing the swappiness from 60 to 10, and making the change permanent in /etc/sysctl.conf. The gratuitous swapping stopped and the machine is responsive, as it should be. In other words the default swappiness value is not appropriate for a desktop system. Ubuntu should find a way to install itself that allows variables such as swappiness to be preconfigured to values appropriate to the use for which the particular flavour of Ubuntu is intended. ProblemType: Bug Architecture: amd64 Date: Thu Feb 4 01:09:24 2010 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10 InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027) Package: kubuntu-desktop 1.154 ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE= PATH=(custom, no user) LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-9.152-rt SourcePackage: kubuntu-meta Uname: Linux 2.6.31-9-rt x86_64 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/lubuntu-default-settings/+bug/516834/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
