Toward a swap abstraction layer

Posted May 28, 2023 23:43 UTC (Sun) by pturmel (guest, #95781)
In reply to: Toward a swap abstraction layer by farnz
Parent article: Toward a swap abstraction layer

This is a very useful tip. Thanks, @farnz. I will now give my laptop 128MB of swap and see how it goes (also 64GB of RAM, nVME storage).

Toward a swap abstraction layer

Posted May 30, 2023 12:42 UTC (Tue) by farnz (subscriber, #17727) [Link]

I should note that I suspect that a significant fraction of my gains from this are because I have systemd-oomd running, and it takes action when swap is significantly used. My working theory is that if I'm hitting 90% full swap, I'm at a point where I've exceeded my system's capabilities, and systemd-oomd should kick in and kill things before I start paging out the executable code I'm actively using.