I guess I don't know what I expected. Sorry everyone on the list! On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 7:34 PM, paul g <PJ.world at hotmail.com> wrote: > Mock you're swap. You know who you are. Blub. > > > ....zzz > > > ------------------------------ > *From:* tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org <tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org> > on behalf of Jeff Chapin <chapinjeff at gmail.com> > *Sent:* Wednesday, September 20, 2017 6:32 PM > > *To:* TCLUG Mailing List > *Subject:* Re: [tclug-list] proc virt meaning? > > .... Dare I ask? > > On Sep 20, 2017 1:46 AM, "paul g" <PJ.world at hotmail.com> wrote: > >> He likes it all to be manual. Just like Potter; >> >> ....zzz >> >> >> ------------------------------ >> *From:* tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org <tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org> >> on behalf of Jeff Chapin <chapinjeff at gmail.com> >> *Sent:* Monday, September 18, 2017 4:26 PM >> *To:* TCLUG Mailing List >> *Subject:* Re: [tclug-list] proc virt meaning? >> >> Swapoff checks that automatically -- but I usually do it when I notice >> that I am using a ton of swap, but not all my ram. It may just be an >> illusion, but it seems that when I have a browser that is starting to act >> up and slow, this fixes it. >> >> On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 4:17 PM, Justin Krejci <jus at krytosvirus.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Do you check to make sure your existing swap usage and RAM usage >>> combined does not equal a number higher than the amount of total RAM you >>> have on the system? I am guessing flushing swap into RAM when there is not >>> enough RAM available is a bad thing to do. >>> >>> Just curious, why do you clear your swap space like that periodically? >>> If your swap is being used too much, perhaps you either need more RAM or >>> else should maybe turn down your vm.swappiness in sysctl. >>> >>> On 2017-09-18 04:07 PM, Jeff Chapin wrote: >>> >>> I periodically check swap usage, and run: >>> >>> sudo swapoff -a; sudo swapon -a; >>> >>> This will force anything in swap (on disk) back into RAM. >>> >>> Jeff >>> >>> On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 4:05 PM, Steve Trapp <stevetrapp at comcast.net> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Aha. I tried 'man swap' but didn't think of 'swapon'. My google search >>>> was not >>>> very productive, so I am thankful of your information! -Steve >>>> >>>> On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 07:16:16PM +0000, Iznogoud wrote: >>>> > > >>>> > > For GNU/Linux, how do you turn swap off and how do you turn in back >>>> on again? >>>> > > >>>> > >>>> > Here is the top of the manual page: >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > NAME >>>> > swapon, swapoff - enable/disable devices and files for paging >>>> and swap- >>>> > ping >>>> > >>>> > SYNOPSIS >>>> > /sbin/swapon [-h -V] >>>> > /sbin/swapon -a [-v] [-e] >>>> > /sbin/swapon [-v] [-p priority] specialfile ... >>>> > /sbin/swapon [-s] >>>> > /sbin/swapoff [-h -V] >>>> > /sbin/swapoff -a >>>> > /sbin/swapoff specialfile ... >>>> > >>>> > _______________________________________________ >>>> > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >>>> > tclug-list at mn-linux.org >>>> > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >>>> -- >>>> Name: Steve Trapp >>>> Location: Just east of the Missippi River >>>> Email-address: stevetrapp<AT>comcast<DOT>net >>>> Homepage: comcast DROPPED ALL HOMEPAGES--Where do I put my PGP public >>>> key now? >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >>>> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >>>> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Jeff Chapin >>> President, CedarLug, retired >>> President, UNIPC, "I'll get around to it" >>> President, UNI Scuba Club >>> Senator, NISG, retired >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >>> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >>> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >>> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >>> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Jeff Chapin >> President, CedarLug, retired >> President, UNIPC, "I'll get around to it" >> President, UNI Scuba Club >> Senator, NISG, retired >> >> _______________________________________________ >> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >> >> > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > -- Jeff Chapin President, CedarLug, retired President, UNIPC, "I'll get around to it" President, UNI Scuba Club Senator, NISG, retired -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20170920/8fd7cb4b/attachment-0001.html>