Is swappiness setting in Linux what you are looking for?
How to change the Swappiness of your Linux system https://www.howtoforge.com/tutorial/linux-swappiness/ Daniel. On Wed, 2018-04-25 at 22:46 +1000, Russell Coker via luv-main wrote: > # free -m > total used free shared buff/cache ava > ilable > Mem: 7962 2212 498 533 5251 > 4942 > Swap: 10719 1732 8986 > > The above is from my workstation. It's running KDE, Chrome, > KTorrent, and not > much else. My understanding of the above is that most RAM is being > used for > cache and it's quite likely that this achieves the goal of reducing > the number > of storage accesses. > > The problem is that I don't want to reduce the number of storage > accesses, I > want to improve the performance of interactive tasks. Ktorrent is > configured > to only upload 60KB/s so a lack of caching of the torrents shouldn't > prevent > it from uploading at the maximum speed I permit. When large > interactive > programs like Chrome and Kmail get paged out it causes annoying > delays when I > want to perform what should be quick tasks like replying to a single > message > or viewing a single web page. > > Any suggestions as to how to optimise for this use case? I already > have swap > on one of the fastest SSDs I own and don't feel like buying NVMe for > this > purpose or buying a system with more RAM, so software changes are > required. > > When replying please feel free to diverge from the topic. I think > this is an > area where most Linux users know less than they would like so > randomly > educational replies will be appreciated even if they don't help me > with this > problem. > _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list [email protected] https://lists.luv.asn.au/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/luv-main
