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Raphael MD wrote: |
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> Hello! |
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> Could I turn my Linux swap off. |
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> I have 32 GB of RAM memory, I suppose my system don’t need swap, |
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> because I’vea lot of RAM, is this true? |
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> Thanks |
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> M.S. Raphael Mejias Dias |
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As some know, I've had occasions where some program would eat up a lot |
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of memory. I've had a time or two where I had to shutdown or it crashed |
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itself. The offender varies. Once it was Firefox, huge problem there |
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but seems OK now. Right now, sddm is going off the end. For that |
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reason, I actually increased my swap space. It gets really slow to |
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respond when it uses swap but it beats crashing. Just set swapiness to |
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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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If you have not had swap touched in a very long time, maybe it is safe |
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enough. Just keep in mind that if some package consumes way more than |
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it should, it can end badly. The kernel's OOM tool isn't that great in |
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my experience. Sometimes it does OK, sometimes not. A couple times, it |
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seemed to not do anything and I got a reboot. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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