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Set swappiness to 60 so that we do swap instead of letting the machine crawl to a stop

Graham Christensen committed Dec 18, 2021 at 18:13 UTC 891136d40a11aadf09c7c864f9216ff386f2b396
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bastion/configuration.nix
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@@ -70,8 +70,8 @@ in
70 # work around releases taking too much memory
71 swapDevices = [{ device = "/scratch/swapfile"; size = 32 * 1024; }];
72
73 - # avoid swap as much as possible
74 - boot.kernel.sysctl."vm.swappiness" = lib.mkDefault 0;
73 + # Enable swap so mirroring the channels doesn't make AWS think this machine is dead
74 + boot.kernel.sysctl."vm.swappiness" = lib.mkDefault 60;
75
76 boot.loader.grub.device = lib.mkForce "/dev/disk/by-id/nvme-Amazon_Elastic_Block_Store_vol0631f5232321abda4";
77