Questions tagged [swap]
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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Hibernate to separate partition or file from system swap to prevent failure
Having done a fair bit of reading and searching for this I don't believe what I am hoping for is possible, but wondered if anyone knows differently.
The issue is my laptop keeps failing to hibernate ...
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“Preempting” less-used pages in high priority swap to lower priority swap
Let's say I've got two swap partitions on my Linux machine. One is zram and a higher priority. The other is on disk and a lower priority. I prefer the zram swap because it's faster. As I understand it,...
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rhel + why swap memory isn't exploited
we have rhel servers with version 7.6
we configured the swap and we can see the swap size from the following
free -g
total used free shared buff/cache available
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Testing swap partition on OpenVZ vps
I am attempting to confirm swap usage on an OpenVZ vps. (I have had issues with badly configured swap files before)
To do so I am slowly filling the memory using code from this question
How to test ...
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rhel + adding swap memory without reboot
we do the following procedure in order to add swap memory on rhel 7.x machine
so before the swap additional memory we have :
free -g
total used free shared buff/cache ...
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Where can I find options used for swap devices?
When adding swap space for paging there are options other than priority (pri=).
For example discard.
However I could not find where to read back those options.
/proc/swaps just has a priority column, ...
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What is swap priority and why does it matter
While seeing the manual for swapon command the priorty option is described as
-p, --priority priority
Specify the priority of the swap device. priority is a value
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Linux increase swap partition failed
First I fdisk -l check disk usage
Then check swap file, find /dev/dm-1 is my swap path
I know I can increase swap by adding swap file, but I was wondering if I can do it by revising the default path ...
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Swap file with Btrfs and multiple device
System specs:
# btrfs filesystem show
Label: none uuid: 3899c47c-19e8-4db3-aac9-....
Total devices 2 FS bytes used 2.00TiB
devid 1 size 931.42GiB used 690.01GiB path /dev/nvme1n1p2
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High IO rate when the system out of RAM
I found that when the system goes out of memory, the disk IO usage will be very high.
It seems many processes are reading from hard disk frantically (check htop output below). When I kill a process ...
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Differences between swap part in top command vs swap -l command
I have a system running with 256Gb RAM. My swap space is getting exhausted due to some process. So as a diagnostics, we put a crontab to monitor the usage and space. This is where I am confused.
The ...
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Ubuntu 20.04.01, full disk encryption, btrfs, & hibernation?
I am trying to install *20.04.01 on my desktop with full (or almost full as Tj puts it) disk encryption including encrypted swap partition that allows hibernation, and btrfs.
The last few years I am ...
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Swap partition vs swap file in ubuntu [closed]
I am a new linux user switched from windows 10. I have installed ubuntu 20.04.1 lts. I have swap file available in my system. Is it better to use swap partition instead of swap file?
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High RAM and swap usage out of seemingly nowhere
(Manjaro 20, Linux 5.8.3, KDE, this laptop)
When reasonably much is going on in my system, the RAM and swap usage often goes much higher than it should. For example currently I have a VM with a VM in ...
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How can I increase the size of an encrypted swap partition when the root partition already takes up all free space?
My laptop is getting kinda slow, especially when having Firefox opened with multiple tabs, which is why I'm trying different ways to make it a little snappier. It has an Intel Core 2 Duo T5600, 2 GB ...
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Will hibernation to swap partition automatically fall back to swap file when swap is smaller than RAM?
I'd like to understand how the hibernation process works in Linux, with regards to memory size and swap.
Is hibernation limited to swap partition size? What does it do when RAM doesn't fit?
Consider ...
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Is the “page-to-disk” feature Linus talks about in his autobiography essentially the concept of swapping we use today?
In his autobiography, Just for Fun, Linus mentions the "page-to-disk" feature that was pivotal in making Linux a worthy competitor to Minix and other UNIX clones of the day:
I remember that,...
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Swap issue and “read swap header failed” for /swapfile
My Swap memory shows SWAP critical 0% free on NMS.
I tried:
`$ swapon --show`
but nothing showed up. I went on to do:
$ free -m
total used free shared buff/cache ...
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Guide on how to enable hibernation on Linux Mint 20 Cinnamon (Ubuntu 20) and prevent unwanted wakeups
UPDATE: I have encountered some inconsistencies with my script in section 4 that is meant to be executed on every wake-up. Turns out, /proc/acpi/wakeup settings are only reset sometimes. Not on every ...
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Does page swapping happen when the main memory is still available?
I just stumbled upon a random question that goes like, does the Linux kernel swap out any memory pages even when there are still some available memory spaces? I thought it does not in principle, but ...
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Automatic swapping with sytemd on Manjaro broken
I'm running Manjaro on a fairly old desktop system & my memory usage differs greatly depending on what I'm doing. Therefore, I want to use systemd to automatically allocate swap space in files as ...
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Swapfile Swapon invalid argument
I had swap from a swapfile working for quite some time, but for some reason it stopped working.
sudo fallocate -l 4G /home/.swap/swapfile
sudo chmod 600 /home/.swap/swapfile
sudo mkswap /home/.swap/...
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Out of memory, but swap available
My server runs out of memory even though there is swap available.
Why?
I can reproduce it this way:
eat_20GB_RAM() {
perl -e '$a="c"x10000000000;print "OK\n";sleep 10000';
}
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Centos 6 wouldn't swap
I'm almost out of the ram,
was hoping to swap ram kicks in, but it doesn't do anything.
CentOS release 6.10 (Final)
root@auth33:~# free -m
total used free shared ...
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Low size on home directory
Well I created a directory in the home directory in order to copy some books from my hard drive, and I found that there wasn't enough space on the home directory.
As you can see below, I have got 377G ...
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Ubuntu 20.04 installation created a swapfile instead of swap partition. Is it normal?
Recently, I clean-installed Ubuntu 20.04, with minimal installation option.
Now, when I check my swap space using the command swapon -s, I get the following output:
Filename Type Size Used ...
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Python consume too much SWAP
Please take a look on output of command lsof -p PID where PID is python process.
COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME
python 1459 root cwd DIR 253,...
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Page table content when the physical page we are looking for is in swap area
If this question depends on the linux distribution, please answer it in a "general way" (i.e. the most common implementation on linux distributions).
In the page table of a process we can ...
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Reduce swap memory size and increase RAM access?
I'm on an Arch Linux machine running KDE Plasma desktop environment. I have 16GB of physical RAM installed in my machine. I had 8GB swap memory and apparently have access to 8GB of RAM. I wanted to ...
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How to increase swap space on Ubuntu 20.04 ZFS?
I have recently installed Ubuntu 20.04 with ZFS as the file system. I check my RAM / swap and it is as follows:
qallaf89@desktop:~$ free -h
total used free shared ...
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Why is my computer using a lot of swap memory?
My computer has been freezing quite a few times over the last few months.
I was initially using
Ubuntu 18.04. I then upgraded to Ubuntu 19.04 and now I am finally on Ubuntu 20.04. And slowly it has ...
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Encrypting swap partition
So I've recently struggled with encrypting both / and /home partitions with LUKS, without using LVM while installing Arch Linux. The goal was simple - unlock with only one passphrase, without the need ...
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What determines the number of kswapd:s?
On this system there are only 8 kswapds:
top - 00:10:37 up 3:18, 5 users, load average: 60.96, 61.95, 58.34
Tasks: 4318 total, 47 running, 2433 sleeping, 1836 stopped, 2 zombie
%Cpu(s): 0.2 us,...
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ERROR: could not insert 'slram'
I am running a laptop with 4 GB RAM + 4 GiB ZRAM, but it also does have integrated graphics:
$ lspci -vvv | ruby -e 'puts STDIN.read.split(/\n\b/)[1]'
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel ...
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Swap and SSD linux
I'm about to install Linux in an SSD and I have doubts about how much swap space I should allocate.
I have a 1TB SSD drive and 16GB of RAM. I'm not sure if I even need to allocate space for the swap ...
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swap is high inspite configuration is swappiness=1
we have moon server - version rhel 7.5
the behavior of consuming swap on this server is very strange
we configured the /proc/sys/vm/swappiness to 1 and restart the server
but we can see that server ...
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Swap grows slowly with 80% available memory
This has few views - so let me try with a tl;dr
Is my claim that there should be plenty of free memory correct? Or am I misinterpreting Meaning of the buffers/cache line in the output of free? Can ...
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How to check actual RAM usage of tmpfs?
I know that tmpfs falls back to using swap if system is under memory pressure. I can query total tmpfs usage in KiB with
df | grep tmpfs | awk 'BEGIN{sum=0} {sum = sum + $3} END{print sum}'
but how ...
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why swapoff -a && swapon -a not help to Decrease the used swap in the linux machine [duplicate]
on the rhel version 7.5 the used swap is 12G
we change the swappiness from 10 to 1
echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/swappiness
sysctl -w vm.swappiness=1
echo "vm.swappiness = 1" >> /etc/sysctl.conf
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is it possible to reconfigure the vm.swappiness on the fly? [duplicate]
we have the following kernel settings:
sysctl -p
fs.file-max = 400000
vm.swappiness = 10
vm.vfs_cache_pressure = 50
net.core.somaxconn = 1024
and the Used swap is:
now we want to decrease the vm....
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Linux: Swap out in bigger chunks
My swapdisk can write 100 MB/s. When the system swaps out it only writes 8-20 MB/s.
iostat says the device is 100% active, so I have the feeling that Linux is seeking on the drive or swapping out ...
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32GB RAM + 16GB Swap?
I just upgraded my RAM in my Acer Aspire TC-885-ACCFLi5 from 16GB to 32GB. I have 2x1TB SSDs and 1x2TB HDD. I dual-boot between an Arch-based and a Debian-based distros. I use one of my SSDs for my /...
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Can We save files in RAM?
So i noticed how linux sometimes uses swap memory (located in internal HDD / SSD).
When ram is overloaded PC stores some ram data in swap to make things faster it guess.
So if you can store ram ...
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Has Linux abandoned hibernation ? How to improve thawing process?
Is anybody trying to use hibernation under Linux (with a HDD), or am I the only one ?
Is anybody satisfied with how it works, or am I the only one where thawing takes 20 to 30 minutes before the ...
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Setting a threshold on the resident memory used by a particular process or cgroup (no swapping below)
Under Linux with systemd, I would like to require a threshold on the resident memory used by a particular process or cgroup, i.e. prevent swapping below this threshold.
The problem is the following ...
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Centos Stucked at “Assuming drive cache : write through” after running incorrect swap file
Centos system got stuck, how do i reset to normal
dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile1 bs=65536 count=1024
Have run above command to create a swap file with sudo privilege, as I have entered the command ...
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Linux swap space usage not freed
i received alerts on one of my systems (RHEL6) saying that it had a high swap space usage.
after looking at the VM, i can indeed see that the swap is fully utilized, while we have more than enough ...
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Issues Resuming from Suspend
I'm running KDE Neon 5.18 User Edition, but I came here because I suspect this is a more general problem than the particular distro. The issue is that I cannot resume from suspend whatsoever. ...
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Issue Resuming from Suspend on KDE Neon
I'm running KDE Neon 5.18 User Edition, but I came here because I suspect this is a more general problem. The issue is that I cannot resume from suspend whatsoever. Regardless of the circumstances, I ...
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Linux: The difference between “paging on major page fault” and “swapping enabled manually” [closed]
On a Linux machine, we can enable swap by commands like the following
sudo fallocate -l 500M /data/swapfile
sudo chmod 600 /data/swapfile
sudo mkswap /data/swapfile
sudo swapon /data/swapfile
But ...
