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Turn off swap and clear your caches to see your true ram usage: swapoff -a -v echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches I recommend `htop` to check out your m

Turn off swap and clear your caches to see your true ram usage: swapoff -a -v echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches I recommend `htop` to check out your memory usage after that. You can also tweak the vm.swapiness variable to change Linux's behavior there. I personally just turn swap off on all my systems as soon as I set them up.

mkl 11y ago
What happens if you turn off swap while using more virtual memory than you have RAM?
- brobinson 11y ago
  I imagine the OOM killer would take out a process. In that case, I would suggest paying for some more ram before turning off swap. Swap is death for performance! :)
  - nbevans 11y ago
    But necessary.