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Linux Swap Explained: Do You Need It? (linuxiac.com)

submitted 1 month ago by Sunshine@lemmy.ca to c/linux@programming.dev

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[–] FizzyOrange@programming.dev 9 points 1 month ago (15 children)

I was forced to enable swap because it I run out of RAM without swap then 95% of the time my laptop hard reboots. Adding a ton of swap fixed it.

My next issue is that sometimes it just hard-freezes. Zero warning, under no load, I can't even move the mouse. Linux on the desktop!

[–] sip@programming.dev 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I added a userland OOM and now my browsers or slack dissapears and I'm confused for 5-10 secunds every time. sometimes my editor or one of the lsp servers.

cspell also leaks like crazy

[–] trolololol@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Oh how do I do this? Can you choose what processes it kills first even if they're not the worst offenders?

[–] sip@programming.dev 1 points 1 month ago

look into early oom

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