VIDEO: How to Change Swappiness in Ubuntu

Ubuntu's swappiness setting controls how readily Linux uses swap when managing memory. In this video, we'll show you how to check your current value, change it to 10, apply the setting, and verify the result.

Ubuntu's default swappiness value is 60. Lowering it can make the system less inclined to swap memory pages to disk, although the best value depends on your workload.

Watch the video above for the commands and steps to change the setting on Ubuntu.