How to: reduce swappiness

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  • Open up run (Alt+F2) and write: 
gksudo gedit /etc/sysctl.conf
  • At the bottom of the file, add this line: 
vm.swappiness=0
  • Save and close
  • You can put a comment above it like this, to remind yourself at a later date why you changed it: 
# To reduce wear of flash disk, added Joe Bloggs 22/05/2008

NOTE: This does not disable swapping completely

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