Increasing performance by tuning swappiness

[Zvi Devir]

Actually, swap should have been a great solution for B2 machines with a 
modern (i.e., >500) image. Theoretically, the additional swap memory 
provided by an external usb2 storage device should allow a smoother 
execution of memory hungry applications.
In practice, the additional swap did not help, probably because the 
memory watchdog does not take into an account the possible additional 
swap. I'll check if changing the swappiness helps in this situation.

  - Zvi

Chris Ball wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>    > Any thoughts on this subject?
> 
> Yes:  we don't use swap.
> 
> - Chris.