cannedtuna@lemmy.world to linuxmemes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 27 days agoStop Doing Swap Partitionslemmy.worldimagemessage-square14linkfedilinkarrow-up1299arrow-down116file-text
arrow-up1283arrow-down1imageStop Doing Swap Partitionslemmy.worldcannedtuna@lemmy.world to linuxmemes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 27 days agomessage-square14linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squaretired_n_bored@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·26 days agoCan anyone tell me why I see swap usage with 10+GB of free RAM available?
minus-squareBrkdncr@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·26 days agoSaving ram to swap can be done with minimal impact. Helpful when you run out of memory and that 2gb app idling can be dumped right away instead of waiting for it to be copied to swap.
minus-squaredroans@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·26 days agoBecause you just taught your computer how to be lazy. “oH lOoK aT mE i’M sWaP mEmOrY”
Can anyone tell me why I see swap usage with 10+GB of free RAM available?
Saving ram to swap can be done with minimal impact. Helpful when you run out of memory and that 2gb app idling can be dumped right away instead of waiting for it to be copied to swap.
Because you just taught your computer how to be lazy. “oH lOoK aT mE i’M sWaP mEmOrY”