Swap space is an area of the hard disk that serves as an overflow when the computer memory is full. The memory used by inactive applications is partially written out to disk to make room for other applications and for the disk cache for active files.
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What is the appropriate value of vm.swappiness when using zram?
I'm using zram on my computer as a compressed RAM-backed swap. When the system needs to swap something out, swapping it to a zram-backed swap file is more or less equivalent to compressing that data ...
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Which processes swaps memory
I can see swap's total, used, free etc. sizes from top command.
But I can't figure out which process uses swap, is it possible to find out swap memory by process?
I'm running CentOS 6.3.
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Linux: Total swap used = swap used by processes +?
So, I'm trying to do some investigation on where does swap use come from in a system with high swap usage:
# free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: ...
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zram swap instability
I use Mint 13 Maya with mainline kernel 3.6.3 for Ubuntu Quantal on my Asus P53E Notebook.
I use zram swap that comes with the package zram-config.
I've noticed that using it the system to hangs at ...
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Is there an in-memory compressed swap facility (like Compcache) for FreeBSD?
Is there anything like CompCache for FreeBSD?
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Swap space not used
I recently installed Debian 6.0.6. Here are the machine's states:
CPU - AMD XP 3000+
RAM - 1 Gig
HDD - IDE 80 Gig
I primarily use this machine for developing toy personal projects. When I run ...
