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for older desktop machines (with say only 128MB), use as much swap space as you can spare, even up to 1GB.
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echo 50 > /proc/sys/vm/swappiness
If you want to alter it permanently then you need to change the vm.swappiness parameter in the /etc/sysctl.conf file.
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