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On 01/05/2020 22:50, Raphael MD wrote: |
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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, because |
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> I’vea lot of RAM, is this true? |
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I've been on 16GB RAM for about 10 years. I've been using a 4GB swap |
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partition for about 8 years. Two years ago, I disabled swap. This fixed |
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a long standing problem where running applications that I didn't touch |
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for a while would take *ages* to start operating at normal speeds again. |
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Setting the vm.swappiness=10 sysctl didn't help either. Only |
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vm.swappiness=0 got rid of those issues (which basically means disable |
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swap.) |
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I don't know how common this problem is in general, but for me it |
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happened a lot because I use virtual machines to do work on Windows 10, |
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Ubuntu and macOS running in Gentoo. This always resulted in applications |
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that I didn't touch for a while getting swapped out even though there |
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was plenty of RAM free. Since I disabled swap, everything stays nice and |
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snappy all the time instead of becoming a sluggish nightmare after a while. |
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