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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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> 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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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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