The -w flag writes a kernel parameter live: vm.swappiness=10 tells the kernel to prefer RAM and swap less aggressively, which helps latency-sensitive services. This change is temporary — it resets on reboot unless persisted in /etc/sysctl.conf. Check the current value with cat /proc/sys/vm/swappiness.
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