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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 > > . > That's why I set swapiness to a low number.  I don't want it to use swap unless it is to prevent a crash.  If I set it to a higher number, it wants to use swap even when there is memory available.  Once it starts using swap, it gets slow.  The more it uses, the worse it gets.  However, it beats it rebooting without umounting partitions and such.  If nothing else, it may give me time to use the alt-sys sequence.  I'm maxed out on memory at the moment but wish I could get and afford 64GBs, in a way.  Still, I'd have a swap partition.  Dale :-)  :-) --------------9B6377C626DBE95CE6C0053E Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
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

.


That's why I set swapiness to a low number.  I don't want it to use swap unless it is to prevent a crash.  If I set it to a higher number, it wants to use swap even when there is memory available.  Once it starts using swap, it gets slow.  The more it uses, the worse it gets.  However, it beats it rebooting without umounting partitions and such.  If nothing else, it may give me time to use the alt-sys sequence. 

I'm maxed out on memory at the moment but wish I could get and afford 64GBs, in a way.  Still, I'd have a swap partition. 

Dale

:-)  :-)
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