Swappiness

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A setting in the Linux kernel determining the balance between swapping out runtime memory and dropping pages from the system page cache. uncountable

    "How frequently a Linux server utilizes swap is referred to as its swappiness. By default, the swappiness value on a Linux server is typically set to 60."

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"How frequently a Linux server utilizes swap is referred to as its swappiness. By default, the swappiness value on a Linux server is typically set to 60."

Etymology

From swap + -y + -ness.

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