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Re:Tired of explaining Linux's seemingly obtuse memory usage... by jacques_chester on Tuesday February 01, 2011 @08:01PM (#2168328)
Low swappiness is also useful in tightly controlled VPSes. Swap is absolute murder on a VPS platform. I leave it on as emergency backstop, but otherwise I have turned down to 0. I simply do not want processes swapped out, ever.
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