On 2020-03-04 08:45 PM, Michael Hamilton wrote:
On Thursday 05 March 2020, James Knott wrote:
I'm running 15.1 & KDE. One thing I've noticed is swap use increases through time, even though I'm not even using all the real memory. Eventually, it gets to the point where my system bogs down and can become unusable. At the moment, I'm running 13.6 GiB of 15.6 memory and 4.1 of 24 swap. Why should swap be used at all, when there's still a significant amount of free memory?
No matter how you've set up swap and swappiness, bogging down only happens if a system is actually running out of memory, no amount of setting changes is going to fix running out of memory.
Our home desktops run chrome and firefox quite intensively. They have 8 and 16 GB respectively. They never get into a bogged down situation. I suspect you are running something that is leaking memory or some long run process that refuses to release memory it has accumulated.
Previously in such situation I would keep an eye on the memory usage. Perhaps in KsysGuard and watch for a gradual increase in usage after starting some program or starting some activity. Or perhaps in htop with processes sorted by memory usage.
The last time I had this sort of issue was when running chrome, the Android IDE, and and some Android emulators all at the same time with only 8 GB of RAM.
Michael
I have been watching the memory and this is why I know swap keeps on climbing, even when almost half of the memory is still available. When it climbs and I kill those browsers, memory and swap drop. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org