#TEST# Performance Tunings for Desktop 3GB RAM

### Original Article: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/blog/ugjka-1011246/performance-tunings-for-desktop-intel-gm45-gfx-3gb-ram-36923/

### BOOT Kernel Parameters ###
workqueue.power_efficient=0 # : Disable power savings and increase performance
pcie_bus_perf # : Set device MPS to the largest allowable MPS
elevator=bfq # : Use Brainfuck Scheduler for IO
zswap.enabled=1 # : Enable compressed ram swap cache for faster access of Swap
zswap.max_pool_percent=1 # : Set zswap to 1 percent of RAM

### Sysctl Parameters ###

# /etc/sysctl.d/99-sysctl.conf
vm.swappiness=30
vm.vfs_cache_pressure=50
vm.dirty_background_bytes = 33554432
vm.dirty_bytes = 268435456
vm.dirty_expire_centisecs= 6000
vm.zone_reclaim_mode=1
vm.page-cluster=0
vm.compact_memory=1

### I/O Queue ###

# /etc/tmpfiles.d/nr_requests.conf
w /sys/block/sda/queue/nr_requests - - - - 1024