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Can't change swappiness (Solved)
« on: January 11, 2018, 11:56:17 pm »
Just been trying to change swappiness in Xubuntu.

First, I got a message that gedit was not installed, so I followed the recommendation to install it.
That seemed to go ok, but when I tried to edit sysctl.conf the problems started. Despite error messages, sysctl.conf was presented in a different window and I was able to edit and save it, but when I re-run cat /proc/sys/vm/swappiness, the edit has not affected swappiness (ie: it's still set to 60, not 10)

Any ideas please? Thanks in advance.

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mike@xubuntu:~$ free -m
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Mem:           3950        1834         640          64        1475        1785
Swap:          4092           0        4092
mike@xubuntu:~$ cat proc/sys/vm/swappiness
cat: proc/sys/vm/swappiness: No such file or directory
mike@xubuntu:~$ cat /proc/sys/vm/swappiness
60
mike@xubuntu:~$ sudo gedit /etc/sysctl.conf
[sudo] password for mike:
sudo: gedit: command not found
mike@xubuntu:~$ gedit /etc/sysctl.conf
The program 'gedit' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing:
sudo apt install gedit
mike@xubuntu:~$ sudo apt install gedit
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
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mike@xubuntu:~$ gedit /etc/sysctl.conf

** (gedit:9882): WARNING **: Couldn't connect to accessibility bus: Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus-cX8z5tGIpX: Connection refused
mike@xubuntu:~$ sudo gedit /etc/sysctl.conf

** (gedit:9934): WARNING **: Couldn't connect to accessibility bus: Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus-cX8z5tGIpX: Connection refused

(gedit:9934): Gtk-WARNING **: Calling Inhibit failed: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.gnome.SessionManager was not provided by any .service files

** (gedit:9934): WARNING **: Set document metadata failed: Setting attribute metadata::gedit-spell-enabled not supported

** (gedit:9934): WARNING **: Set document metadata failed: Setting attribute metadata::gedit-encoding not supported

** (gedit:9934): WARNING **: Set document metadata failed: Setting attribute metadata::gedit-position not supported
mike@xubuntu:~$
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Re: Can't change swappiness
« Reply #1 on: January 12, 2018, 06:57:01 pm »
What's the contents of
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mousepad /etc/sysctl.conf
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Re: Can't change swappiness
« Reply #2 on: January 12, 2018, 09:04:45 pm »
Odd. This shows the new setting for swappiness.

Even this command threw up an apparent error in the terminal though..
** (mousepad:3726): WARNING **: Couldn't connect to accessibility bus: Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus-mExREEPecG: Connection refused




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#
# /etc/sysctl.conf - Configuration file for setting system variables
# See /etc/sysctl.d/ for additional system variables.
# See sysctl.conf (5) for information.
#

#kernel.domainname = example.com

# Uncomment the following to stop low-level messages on console
#kernel.printk = 3 4 1 3

##############################################################3
# Functions previously found in netbase
#

# Uncomment the next two lines to enable Spoof protection (reverse-path filter)
# Turn on Source Address Verification in all interfaces to
# prevent some spoofing attacks
#net.ipv4.conf.default.rp_filter=1
#net.ipv4.conf.all.rp_filter=1

# Uncomment the next line to enable TCP/IP SYN cookies
# See [url=http://lwn.net/Articles/277146/]http://lwn.net/Articles/277146/[/url]
# Note: This may impact IPv6 TCP sessions too
#net.ipv4.tcp_syncookies=1

# Uncomment the next line to enable packet forwarding for IPv4
#net.ipv4.ip_forward=1

# Uncomment the next line to enable packet forwarding for IPv6
#  Enabling this option disables Stateless Address Autoconfiguration
#  based on Router Advertisements for this host
#net.ipv6.conf.all.forwarding=1


###################################################################
# Additional settings - these settings can improve the network
# security of the host and prevent against some network attacks
# including spoofing attacks and man in the middle attacks through
# redirection. Some network environments, however, require that these
# settings are disabled so review and enable them as needed.
#
# Do not accept ICMP redirects (prevent MITM attacks)
#net.ipv4.conf.all.accept_redirects = 0
#net.ipv6.conf.all.accept_redirects = 0
# _or_
# Accept ICMP redirects only for gateways listed in our default
# gateway list (enabled by default)
# net.ipv4.conf.all.secure_redirects = 1
#
# Do not send ICMP redirects (we are not a router)
#net.ipv4.conf.all.send_redirects = 0
#
# Do not accept IP source route packets (we are not a router)
#net.ipv4.conf.all.accept_source_route = 0
#net.ipv6.conf.all.accept_source_route = 0
#
# Log Martian Packets
#net.ipv4.conf.all.log_martians = 1
# Set swappiness to 10 (added by mikep)
vm.swappiness = 10
#
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Re: Can't change swappiness
« Reply #3 on: January 12, 2018, 10:08:10 pm »
So what's the output from:
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cat /proc/sys/vm/swappiness


You can safely ignore those terminal warnings.
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Re: Can't change swappiness
« Reply #4 on: January 12, 2018, 10:39:31 pm »
Thanks Mark,

That's now

mike@xubuntu:~$ cat /proc/sys/vm/swappiness
10

which is correct...!

Is this something to do with having shut down yesterday and restarted today? And is it usual for everything else in sysctl.conf to be commented out?
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Re: Can't change swappiness
« Reply #5 on: January 12, 2018, 11:46:03 pm »
Yes to both.
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Re: Can't change swappiness
« Reply #6 on: January 13, 2018, 09:29:49 pm »
OK. Thanks once again, Mark..

I'll close this thread now.

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Re: Can't change swappiness (Solved)
« Reply #7 on: January 13, 2018, 10:00:16 pm »
No problem Mike :)
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Re: Can't change swappiness (Solved)
« Reply #8 on: January 15, 2019, 08:33:57 pm »
Quote from: mikep on January 11, 2018, 11:56:17 pm
Just been trying to change swappiness in Xubuntu.

First, I got a message that gedit was not installed, so I followed the recommendation to install it.
That seemed to go ok, but when I tried to edit sysctl.conf the problems started. Despite error messages, sysctl.conf was presented in a different window and I was able to edit and save it, but when I re-run cat /proc/sys/vm/swappiness, the edit has not affected swappiness (ie: it's still set to 60, not 10)

Any ideas please? Thanks in advance.

M

mike@xubuntu:~$ free -m
              total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
Mem:           3950        1834         640          64        1475        1785
Swap:          4092           0        4092
mike@xubuntu:~$ cat proc/sys/vm/swappiness
cat: proc/sys/vm/swappiness: No such file or directory
mike@xubuntu:~$ cat /proc/sys/vm/swappiness
60
mike@xubuntu:~$ sudo gedit /etc/sysctl.conf
[sudo] password for mike:
sudo: gedit: command not found
mike@xubuntu:~$ gedit /etc/sysctl.conf
The program 'gedit' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing:
sudo apt install gedit
mike@xubuntu:~$ sudo apt install gedit
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
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mike@xubuntu:~$ gedit /etc/sysctl.conf

** (gedit:9882): WARNING **: Couldn't connect to accessibility bus: Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus-cX8z5tGIpX: Connection refused
mike@xubuntu:~$ sudo gedit /etc/sysctl.conf

** (gedit:9934): WARNING **: Couldn't connect to accessibility bus: Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus-cX8z5tGIpX: Connection refused

(gedit:9934): Gtk-WARNING **: Calling Inhibit failed: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.gnome.SessionManager was not provided by any .service files

** (gedit:9934): WARNING **: Set document metadata failed: Setting attribute metadata::gedit-spell-enabled not supported

** (gedit:9934): WARNING **: Set document metadata failed: Setting attribute metadata::gedit-encoding not supported

** (gedit:9934): WARNING **: Set document metadata failed: Setting attribute metadata::gedit-position not supported
mike@xubuntu:~$

You can safely ignore those terminal warnings.
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