diff --git a/base-files/sysctl.d/vm.conf b/base-files/sysctl.d/vm.conf
index cee1e81..885679f 100644
--- a/base-files/sysctl.d/vm.conf
+++ b/base-files/sysctl.d/vm.conf
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-# Do a minimal amount of swapping.
+# Do a minimal amount of paging/swapping.
 # See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swappiness
-vm.swappiness = 1
+vm.swappiness = 10