.... Dare I ask? On Sep 20, 2017 1:46 AM, "paul g" <PJ.world at hotmail.com> wrote: > He likes it all to be manual. Just like Potter; > > ....zzz > > > ------------------------------ > *From:* tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org <tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org> > on behalf of Jeff Chapin <chapinjeff at gmail.com> > *Sent:* Monday, September 18, 2017 4:26 PM > *To:* TCLUG Mailing List > *Subject:* Re: [tclug-list] proc virt meaning? > > 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. > > On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 4:17 PM, Justin Krejci <jus at krytosvirus.com> > wrote: > >> 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. >> >> 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. >> >> On 2017-09-18 04:07 PM, Jeff Chapin wrote: >> >> I periodically check swap usage, and run: >> >> sudo swapoff -a; sudo swapon -a; >> >> This will force anything in swap (on disk) back into RAM. >> >> Jeff >> >> On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 4:05 PM, Steve Trapp <stevetrapp at comcast.net> >> wrote: >> >>> Aha. I tried 'man swap' but didn't think of 'swapon'. My google search >>> was not >>> very productive, so I am thankful of your information! -Steve >>> >>> On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 07:16:16PM +0000, Iznogoud wrote: >>> > > >>> > > For GNU/Linux, how do you turn swap off and how do you turn in back >>> on again? >>> > > >>> > >>> > Here is the top of the manual page: >>> > >>> > >>> > NAME >>> > swapon, swapoff - enable/disable devices and files for paging >>> and swap- >>> > ping >>> > >>> > SYNOPSIS >>> > /sbin/swapon [-h -V] >>> > /sbin/swapon -a [-v] [-e] >>> > /sbin/swapon [-v] [-p priority] specialfile ... >>> > /sbin/swapon [-s] >>> > /sbin/swapoff [-h -V] >>> > /sbin/swapoff -a >>> > /sbin/swapoff specialfile ... >>> > >>> > _______________________________________________ >>> > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >>> > tclug-list at mn-linux.org >>> > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >>> -- >>> Name: Steve Trapp >>> Location: Just east of the Missippi River >>> Email-address: stevetrapp<AT>comcast<DOT>net >>> Homepage: comcast DROPPED ALL HOMEPAGES--Where do I put my PGP public >>> key now? >>> _______________________________________________ >>> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >>> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >>> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Jeff Chapin >> President, CedarLug, retired >> President, UNIPC, "I'll get around to it" >> President, UNI Scuba Club >> Senator, NISG, retired >> >> _______________________________________________ >> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >> >> > > > -- > Jeff Chapin > President, CedarLug, retired > President, UNIPC, "I'll get around to it" > President, UNI Scuba Club > Senator, NISG, retired > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20170920/284b9045/attachment-0001.html>