@Vipery , of course, there is more than one way to do it. The bottom line is: the existing file in /system/etc gets deleted, the new one gets copied over and permissions are set. However you choose to do that is up to you, it won't effect the outcome. I just enjoy terminals because they are faster for me and a great learning tool for most. And thank you
@ratchetrizzo , you should consider making the jump, man. 6.0 is quite a leap in performance and overall system fluidity. The java compiler Google introduced in M is quite a breath of fresh air on this device. Battery life improvements, hardware efficiency, software efficiency.
To sum up what I changed, I decided to move towards more of a vm knob in sync with some of the common desktop distros like RedHat and Mint. The only exception being swappiness. I've reduced it to maximize performance by minimizing the likelihood of swap memory being used when it really isn't needed. My opinion is that swapping should occur as a failsafe for OOM conditions. So, setting the value at 10% or less is really where its at. I've read tons of various materials on this, and that approach makes a bit more sense for us. If we were dealing with low end, slower devices, with less resources onboard, I'd be thinking more in line with the 3.10.84 kernel's default settings.
I also reduced the back_seek_max tunable for cfq.
Not much was done, but it'll be better.