alt Hacker NewsWhat do you think this value of 60 means? Also, as I said, in extreme situations, when the system is right before invoking the OOM killer, swap is used regardless of `vm.swappiness` setting.
What do you think this value of 60 means? Also, as I said, in extreme situations, when the system is right before invoking the OOM killer, swap is used regardless of `vm.swappiness` setting.
> What do you think this value of 60 means?
Some arbitrary number.
https://docs.kernel.org/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.html#swappines...
> At 0, the kernel will not initiate swap until the amount of free and file-backed pages is less than the high watermark in a zone.
I don't see a reason why the default shouldn't be 0 then on modern systems.