<div dir="auto">.... Dare I ask?</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sep 20, 2017 1:46 AM, "paul g" <<a href="mailto:PJ.world@hotmail.com">PJ.world@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div id="m_-7779398714637305194Signature">He likes it all to be manual. Just like Potter;
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<div dir="ltr">Swapoff checks that automatically -- but I usually do it when I notice that I am using a ton of swap, but not all my ram. It may just be an illusion, but it seems that when I have a browser that is starting to act up and slow, this fixes it.
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 4:17 PM, Justin Krejci <span dir="ltr">
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<p>Do you check to make sure your existing swap usage and RAM usage combined does not equal a number higher than the amount of total RAM you have on the system? I am guessing flushing swap into RAM when there is not enough RAM available is a bad thing to do.<br>
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Just curious, why do you clear your swap space like that periodically? If your swap is being used too much, perhaps you either need more RAM or else should maybe turn down your vm.swappiness in sysctl.<br>
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This will force anything in swap (on disk) back into RAM.<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 4:05 PM, Steve Trapp <span><<a href="mailto:stevetrapp@comcast.net" target="_blank">stevetrapp@comcast.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Aha. I tried 'man swap' but didn't think of 'swapon'. My google search was not<br>
very productive, so I am thankful of your information! -Steve<br>
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