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I am trying to permanently change my swappiness level,i’ve seen an answer posted in a few places and everyone being greateful, saying it works. But it isn’t for me…

This is the question/answer i looked at:

Why dont changes to the swappiness remain permanent after reboot?

But after entering: sudo nano /etc/sysctl.conf

i get a list come up saying various things all with a hashtags in front of each line….

Where exactly do i add vm.swappiness=10??
do i add a hashtag in front of it too like everything else in the file?
I added it to the very top of the file and saved, rebooted, hasnt changed anything. I also added it to the bottom and saved, rebooted…..still hasn’t changed. my swappiness is still 60.

Could someone please be a bit more specific with this please? I'm far from an expert when it comes to linux

Thanks

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Add that at the bottom without the # before it then run:

sudo sysctl -p

Sample from my sysctl.conf file:

# Log Martian Packets
#net.ipv4.conf.all.log_martians = 1
#
fs.inotify.max_user_watches = 524288
#vm.swappiness=0
fs.file-max = 2097152
vm.overcommit_memory=1
net.core.somaxconn=65536
net.ipv4.tcp_max_syn_backlog=8192
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