This is a relief to find! I just looked at htop and panicked over the high amount of “used” memory.
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I’ve heard that argument and i understand the technical reasoning, but in real-world experience i found that disabling swap was the best swappiness for me. Maybe i’m doing something wrong but “help my computer freezes sometime” is a common problem in my circles and “disable swap” has been the best recommendation i found so far.
I find that degraded performance is pretty much always preferable to playing Russian roulette with system processes.