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On Saturday, 2 May 2020 09:53:06 BST Dale wrote: |
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> Wols Lists wrote: |
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> > On 01/05/20 21:29, Dale wrote: |
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> >> It gets really slow to respond when it uses swap but it beats crashing. |
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> >> Just set swapiness to a low number. I think mine is set to 10. |
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> >> Given the cheapness of hard drives, I'm not sure why having several |
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> >> gigabytes of swap space is of much concern. I have the same amount of |
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> >> ram as you and I have a 12GB swap space. I use LVM so I can grow it if |
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> >> needed or just add another swap space. I might add, I've seen times |
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> >> where it gets used. |
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> > That first paragraph is why too much swap space is bad - if an app goes |
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> > rogue it can kill system response and make regaining control of the |
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> > system a nightmare. |
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> > |
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> > Accidentally or on purpose, if a system runs out of ram and starts |
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> > thrashing, you're in big trouble if it's an app eating memory like no |
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> > tomorrow. |
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> > Cheers, |
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> > Wol |
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> > . |
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> That's why I set swapiness to a low number. I don't want it to use swap |
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> unless it is to prevent a crash. If I set it to a higher number, it |
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> wants to use swap even when there is memory available. Once it starts |
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> using swap, it gets slow. The more it uses, the worse it gets. |
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> However, it beats it rebooting without umounting partitions and such. |
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> If nothing else, it may give me time to use the alt-sys sequence. |
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> I'm maxed out on memory at the moment but wish I could get and afford |
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> 64GBs, in a way. Still, I'd have a swap partition. |
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> Dale |
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> :-) :-) |
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I'd be interested to know as a comparison if Nikos' and Dale's I/O |
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unresponsiveness in swapping sees an improvement with the I/O scheduler for |
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spinning drives set to bfq; e.g.: |
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echo bfq > /sys/block/sda/queue/scheduler |