Re: swap maxed out when plenty of RAM available

[Kenneth Parker <sea7kenp@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Mar 22, 2022 at 2:17 PM Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> wrote:

On Tue, Mar 22, 2022 at 01:00:42PM -0500, Nicholas Geovanis wrote:
> That's the usual issue. The /tmp filesystem is usually configured to live
> in RAM,

That's not the default in Debian.  Of course, it might have been set up
that way on the OP's system.

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This is an education for me.  You are quite right that /tmp is not in tmpfs, but other things are, including /dev/shm, which has the same, "liberal" permissions as /tmp. 

So where *does* /tmp reside?

Thank you,

Kenneth Parker