+1 for zramswap, especially if you’re tight on RAM but have a few CPU cycles to spare.
Comment on Why is my server using all my Swap but I have RAM to spare?
Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu 1 week ago
1gb swap is way too small…
I usually setup swap to be 2x the total ram size. So, 32gb swap in your case.
Nothing wrong here, seems normal. With such little swap.
Actually Linux kernel works better with swap, the more the better. It will lalso perform better than zero swap. Counterintuitive indeed, but that’s how it works.
If you don’t want swap, use zram.
DasFaultier@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
N0x0n@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
I though that the recommended swap partition was to double until 16 GB? So at 32GB of ram use 32GB of swap?
GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
You should just maintain awareness of how much you’re using. I think 32gb ram + 32gb swap is ridiculous, frankly. Fedora by default sets zram up to 8gb, with no other swap space configured. Works very well that way.
Personally I’d also probably not ever set up more than 16gb of swap space. If I’m somehow hitting that limit it’s because I actually just need to buy more RAM.
mesamunefire@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Yeah I was thinking of adding swap as my other systems have lots more.
This is just the default on yunohost.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
32GB of swap is huge, I wouldn’t bother with that much unless you’re suspending to disk regularly. I personally just suspend to RAM and call it a day.
On my laptop with 24GB RAM, I have about 20GB swap, which matches the system memory (rest is dedicated to my APU). On my desktop with 16GB RAM, I have 16GB swap, because that’s what my OS picked (I would otherwise go with 10GB). On both systems, I usually only have 2-3GB in swap anyway.