How to tell Linux to explicitly swap out main memory of a suspended process?

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I run a memory-hungry process ( ) which consumes more memory than I have physical memory on my latop, so it is paging and swappin and thrashing all the time and loadavg is about 2 ( is already in use with usual swap partition as well), but slowly moving forward (Although I afraid it will finally tr…

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You can try playing with sysctl "swappiness" parameter... IIRC the higher the value, the more "likely to swap" is. Take a look here

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How to tell Linux to explicitly swap out main memory of a suspended process?

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