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Unnecessary Swapping in Linux
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Mar 15, 20261611 viewsConfidence Score0%
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It seems that sometimes, my computer will start swapping unnecessarily (memory usuage is ~25%), and I can't figure out why. It seems to happen most often when running Perl scripts, but these aren't intensive scripts, and I can't find any thing saying that Perl can only see a certain amount of memor…
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Fix for: Unnecessary Swapping in Linux
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My suggestion is setting your swappiness to 0. Setting your swappiness to a "lower number" may reduce the "frequency" of using swap, but setting it to 0 will force the kernel down a different code path, forcing all memory allocation to first use up …
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