From: Masaru Nomiya <nomiya@lake.dti.ne.jp> Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2023 15:56:55 +0900 Hmmm, there it is.... Could you show the result of; $ cat /proc/sys/vm/swappiness Here it is: root@orion> cat /proc/sys/vm/swappiness 60 root@orion> This is approximately 24 hours after starting to use the 5GiB swap partition the disk has had all along, BTW. ================ From: "Carlos E. R." <robin.listas@telefonica.net> Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2023 11:21:02 +0200 free -tmh would show you the status of memory and whether you might need swap. The fact that I've been without swap for years and not seen the OOM killer hasn't convinced you that I don't need it? ;-} But here it is in any case: root@orion> free -tmh total used free shared buff/cache available Mem: 6.7Gi 2.9Gi 247Mi 140Mi 4.0Gi 3.8Gi Swap: 5.0Gi 0.0Ki 5.0Gi Total: 11Gi 2.9Gi 5.2Gi root@orion> Still looks like plenty of room to me. I attribute this to dealing with the electronic world mostly in terms of text, via emacs. This strikes me as supremely ironic; people used to complain that "emacs" stood for "eight megabytes and constantly swapping." (This, of course, is way out of date; the binaries I build are ~30MB, and the two-week-old emacs instance I am using to write this has an RSS of almost half a gig.) -- Bob