Re: swapctl question

Also, why is Firefox 58 taking up about 2 gb of ram when I have 8
(non-multimedia) tabs open?

On Sun, Apr 15, 2018 at 12:37 AM, Z Ero <zerotetration@gmail.com> wrote:
> amd64, 6.2
>
> I have my swap partition set to priority 9 in fstab.
>
> Why does swapctl report priority 0?
>
> # swapctl
> Device 512-blocks Used Avail Capacity Priority
> /dev/sd0b 11874624 1266232 10608392 11% 0
> # cat /etc/fstab
> 14d16d0d42a89629.a / ffs rw,softdep 1 1
> 14d16d0d42a89629.k /home ffs rw,softdep,nodev,nosuid 1 2
> 14d16d0d42a89629.d /tmp ffs rw,nodev,nosuid 1 2
> 14d16d0d42a89629.f /usr ffs rw,softdep,nodev 1 2
> 14d16d0d42a89629.g /usr/X11R6 ffs rw,softdep,nodev 1 2
> 14d16d0d42a89629.h /usr/local ffs rw,softdep,wxallowed,nodev 1 2
> 14d16d0d42a89629.b none swap sw,priority=9
> 14d16d0d42a89629.e /var ffs rw,softdep,nodev,nosuid 1 2
>
> I want to minimize swapping since I am using a mechanical hard disk
> and thus swap slows things down.
>
> I can disable swap if I want with swapctl -d but I would rather not.
>
> Thanks