====== Swap Memory ======
There is a swappiness factory, see ''/proc/sys/vm/swappiness''.

Setting it to ''0'' will turn of swap. The recommended value is ''10''.

To set this at system start use ''/etc/sysctl.conf''.

    vm.swappiness=10

To turn swap on and/or off use the commands ''swapon'' and ''swapoff''

See https://askubuntu.com/questions/1357/how-to-empty-swap-if-there-is-free-ram

<note important>swappiness of ''0'' will turn off swap completely.</note>

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