Re: Query about existence of way to free up unnecessary RAM usage
On 10/09/2014, Steve Litt <slitt@troubleshooters.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Sep 2014 21:51:35 +0200
> Bzzzz <lazyvirus@gmx.com> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 10 Sep 2014 03:30:40 +0800
>> Bret Busby <bret.busby@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Alright, then; it is doing token swapping - with 99% of 16GB memory
>> > usage, and, swapping only 4% of (about) 40GB swap capacity, you
>> > can't seriously tell me that the swapping is working as it should
>> > be.
>>
>> Anyway, a swap of 40GB is too much for a RAM of 16GB (should be
>> around 16-20GB), unless you perform operations that generates
>> a lot of intermediary results).
>
> The reason I agree with you is that if you need to swap anywhere near
> 40GB of swap, your computer will be crawling to the point where you
> might as well abort the guilty program (if you can navigate to do so),
> or reboot the compute.
>
> That said, I just found out my swap partition is 44GB for a 16GB
> semiconductor RAM.
>
So, does swapping work on your system?
Does your RAM usage go above 50%, without swapping, and, above 90%,
with less than 5% of the swap capacity being used?
--
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
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