Re: No Swap Allocation in FSTAB

2021-06-22 Thread Stephen Morris
On 22/6/21 11:06, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 2021-06-21 4:29 p.m., Stephen Morris wrote: On 20/6/21 02:22, Ed Greshko wrote: On 19/06/2021 21:44, Stephen Morris wrote: My system has been upgraded from versions without ZRAM.  That is the reason my system has a defined swap partition on disk. I don

Re: No Swap Allocation in FSTAB

2021-06-21 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 2021-06-21 4:29 p.m., Stephen Morris wrote: On 20/6/21 02:22, Ed Greshko wrote: On 19/06/2021 21:44, Stephen Morris wrote: My system has been upgraded from versions without ZRAM.  That is the reason my system has a defined swap partition on disk. I don't see the connection between Video Me

Re: No Swap Allocation in FSTAB

2021-06-21 Thread Stephen Morris
On 20/6/21 02:22, Ed Greshko wrote: On 19/06/2021 21:44, Stephen Morris wrote: On 19/6/21 15:31, Ed Greshko wrote: On 19/06/2021 12:45, Stephen Morris wrote: Hi,     I've noticed when trying remediate performance issues in F34 under a vm, that fedora does not have a swap specification in fsta

Re: No Swap Allocation in FSTAB

2021-06-21 Thread Chris Murphy
On Mon, Jun 21, 2021 at 1:25 PM Samuel Sieb wrote: > > On 2021-06-21 1:05 a.m., Bill Shirley wrote: > > The server is running on Raid-1 SSDs with 64GB of RAM > > > > Bill > > > > On 6/21/2021 3:41 AM, Samuel Sieb wrote: > >> On 6/20/21 7:25 PM, Bill Shirley wrote: > >>> One of the first things I d

Re: No Swap Allocation in FSTAB

2021-06-21 Thread Chris Murphy
On Mon, Jun 21, 2021 at 10:51 AM Barry Scott wrote: > > The SSDs are a lot slower than compressing a page into RAM. > > There was extensive discussion on the Fedora Devel list when this change was > proposed. > > Personally I was convinced that this change is an improvement for any system > that

Re: No Swap Allocation in FSTAB

2021-06-21 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 2021-06-21 1:05 a.m., Bill Shirley wrote: The server is running on Raid-1 SSDs with 64GB of RAM Bill On 6/21/2021 3:41 AM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 6/20/21 7:25 PM, Bill Shirley wrote: One of the first things I did after installing F34 is disable swap-on-zram:    touch /etc/systemd/zram-gene

Re: No Swap Allocation in FSTAB

2021-06-21 Thread Barry Scott
The SSDs are a lot slower than compressing a page into RAM. There was extensive discussion on the Fedora Devel list when this change was proposed. Personally I was convinced that this change is an improvement for any system that is under memory pressure. I'm not going to try to recall the discu

Re: No Swap Allocation in FSTAB

2021-06-21 Thread Bill Shirley
[0 07:20:34 root@yoda33 ~]$ swapon NAME  TYPE SIZE USED PRIO /dev/sdc1 partition  64G 9.7M  300 /dev/sdd1 partition  64G 9.4M  300 [0 03:06:33 root@yoda33 ~]$ uptime  03:08:30 up 23 days, 18:33,  2 users,  load average: 0.01, 0.01, 0.00 On 6/21/2021 4:18 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 21/06/2021 1

Re: No Swap Allocation in FSTAB

2021-06-21 Thread Ed Greshko
On 21/06/2021 16:05, Bill Shirley wrote: The server is running on Raid-1 SSDs with 64GB of RAM I suppose the follow-up question would be are you seeing the swap partition actually being used? Does "swapon" show it has been used? -- Remind me to ignore comments which aren't germane to the th

Re: No Swap Allocation in FSTAB

2021-06-21 Thread Bill Shirley
The server is running on Raid-1 SSDs with 64GB of RAM Bill On 6/21/2021 3:41 AM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 6/20/21 7:25 PM, Bill Shirley wrote: One of the first things I did after installing F34 is disable swap-on-zram:    touch /etc/systemd/zram-generator.conf and define a swap partition in fstab

Re: No Swap Allocation in FSTAB

2021-06-21 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 6/20/21 7:25 PM, Bill Shirley wrote: One of the first things I did after installing F34 is disable swap-on-zram:   touch /etc/systemd/zram-generator.conf and define a swap partition in fstab. Why? ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraprojec

Re: No Swap Allocation in FSTAB

2021-06-20 Thread Bill Shirley
One of the first things I did after installing F34 is disable swap-on-zram:   touch /etc/systemd/zram-generator.conf and define a swap partition in fstab. Bill On 6/19/2021 12:45 AM, Stephen Morris wrote: Hi,     I've noticed when trying remediate performance issues in F34 under a vm, that fedo

Re: No Swap Allocation in FSTAB

2021-06-19 Thread Ed Greshko
On 19/06/2021 21:44, Stephen Morris wrote: On 19/6/21 15:31, Ed Greshko wrote: On 19/06/2021 12:45, Stephen Morris wrote: Hi,     I've noticed when trying remediate performance issues in F34 under a vm, that fedora does not have a swap specification in fstab anymore, but is using, in my case,

Re: No Swap Allocation in FSTAB

2021-06-19 Thread Stephen Morris
On 19/6/21 15:31, Ed Greshko wrote: On 19/06/2021 12:45, Stephen Morris wrote: Hi,     I've noticed when trying remediate performance issues in F34 under a vm, that fedora does not have a swap specification in fstab anymore, but is using, in my case, and 8GB swap partition in /dev/zram0. Does

Re: No Swap Allocation in FSTAB

2021-06-18 Thread Ed Greshko
On 19/06/2021 12:45, Stephen Morris wrote: Hi,     I've noticed when trying remediate performance issues in F34 under a vm, that fedora does not have a swap specification in fstab anymore, but is using, in my case, and 8GB swap partition in /dev/zram0. Does this mean that if I create a swap pa

No Swap Allocation in FSTAB

2021-06-18 Thread Stephen Morris
Hi,     I've noticed when trying remediate performance issues in F34 under a vm, that fedora does not have a swap specification in fstab anymore, but is using, in my case, and 8GB swap partition in /dev/zram0. Does this mean that if I create a swap partition of a bigger size and specify it in