# By default, swap frequency defined by "swappiness" is set to 60. By reducing this number to 10, the system will wait much longer before trying to write to disk vm.swappiness = 10 # inotify watches for changes to files and reports them to applications requesting this information. When working with lots of audio data, a lot of watches will need to be kept track of, so they will need to be increased. fs.inotify.max_user_watches = 524288