On Saturday, 2 May 2020 00:09:47 BST Wols Lists wrote: > On 01/05/20 21:29, Dale wrote: > > It gets really slow to respond when it uses swap but it beats crashing. > > Just set swapiness to a low number. I think mine is set to 10. > > > > Given the cheapness of hard drives, I'm not sure why having several > > gigabytes of swap space is of much concern. I have the same amount of > > ram as you and I have a 12GB swap space. I use LVM so I can grow it if > > needed or just add another swap space. I might add, I've seen times > > where it gets used. > > That first paragraph is why too much swap space is bad - if an app goes > rogue it can kill system response and make regaining control of the > system a nightmare. > > Accidentally or on purpose, if a system runs out of ram and starts > thrashing, you're in big trouble if it's an app eating memory like no > tomorrow. > > Cheers, > Wol
This may help responsiveness when it happens: echo bfq > /sys/block/sda/queue/scheduler
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