Mock you're swap. You know who you are. Blub.


....zzz


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.... Dare I ask?

On Sep 20, 2017 1:46 AM, "paul g" <PJ.world at hotmail.com<mailto:PJ.world at hotmail.com>> wrote:
He likes it all to be manual. Just like Potter;

....zzz


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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<mailto: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<mailto: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 ...
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