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I haven't used swap in years, and more recently I've accompanied that by using earlyoom [0] to start killing processes when RAM usage rises above 90%. Both cha
by amyjess 10y ago
I haven't used swap in years, and more recently I've accompanied that by using earlyoom [0] to start killing processes when RAM usage rises above 90%.
Both changes have made my computers much more usable. Systems should designed to fail fast when memory is low instead of slowing down.
[0] https://github.com/rfjakob/earlyoom https://github.com/rfjakob/earlyoom