Re: Query about existence of way to free up unnecessary RAM usage
On Tue, 09 Sep 2014, lee wrote:
> Why would 40GB be too much?
It's probably too much, unless you have processes which allocate lots of
memory and then use it very infrequently or you have incredibly fast
disks.
> I have 8/64 so I can use swapping to slow down the downfall of the
> system.
The system won't go down unless you've disabled the OOM killer or
discovered a kernel bug. [Granted, processes will be killed off, but
that's to be expected.]
Generally speaking, you want enough swap so that infrequently used
memory can be offloaded to disk, but not so much swap that your computer
stops being responsive when you begin to run out of free memory.
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