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submitted 4 months ago by lemmee_in@lemm.ee to c/linux@programming.dev

As part of the memory management changes expected to be merged for the upcoming Linux 6.11 cycle is allowing more fine-tuned control over the swappiness setting used to determine how aggressively pages are swapped out of physical system memory and into the on-disk swap space.

With the new code from Meta, a swappiness argument is supported for memory.reclaim. This effectively allows more finer-grained control over the swapiness behavior without overriding the global swappiness setting.

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[-] sxan@midwest.social 7 points 4 months ago

Yup! And it's glorious.

It's far better to have too much, than too little.

this post was submitted on 05 Jul 2024
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