On Sun, 2022-01-16 at 11:11 -0600, Richard Shaw wrote:
What are you doing that would require that much disk swap? And even
if it did the performance would be pretty bad unless you're running
an SSD/NVMe drive, and even if you are, in memory swap would still be
faster.
With me, I can only ever recall paging going troppo when some badly
written website triggers some flaw in my web browser, or a media player
failing to cope with a badly encoded video file. They're the only two
things I can ever remember triggering mad swapping. It can be murder
trying to fix that without hard resetting the computer hardware.
If I'm lucky I notice it quickly, and CTRL ALT BACKSPACE to kill X, as
about the only thing that responds to me. Even moving the mouse
pointer is like trying to run the mouse over a corrugated iron mousepad
with a severely delayed response on screen.
But if I don't notice it quickly, it could spend hours with the CPU
fans blasting at full speed as it tries to divide the universe by zero
before doing anything else.
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