This is a relief to find! I just looked at htop and panicked over the high amount of “used” memory.

  • southerntofu@lemmy.ml
    2·
    3 years ago

    I’ve heard that argument and i understand the technical reasoning, but in real-world experience i found that disabling swap was the best swappiness for me. Maybe i’m doing something wrong but “help my computer freezes sometime” is a common problem in my circles and “disable swap” has been the best recommendation i found so far.

    • lobsterasteroid@lemmy.ml
      1·
      3 years ago

      I find that degraded performance is pretty much always preferable to playing Russian roulette with system processes.