Tuesday, September 17, 2024

Re: softdep as well as noatime on each partition?

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Ronny Machado C.
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On Tue, Sep 17, 2024 at 03:02:16PM -0400, Geoff Steckel wrote:
> On 9/17/24 12:51, Ronny Machado wrote:
> > Thanks for your reply Geoff...what you said, makes me wonder if putting
> > those in my fstab is what has been causing that laptop random hang
> > ups...
> >
> > R.
> >
> Memory congestion or paging/swapping can seem to slow a system by 50x or
> more.
>
> Congestion caused by backed-up disk writes can be helped with noatime.
>
> Programs actively touching amounts of virtual memory greater than
> physical RAM can also be a problem.
>
> A recent penguin system with 8GB of RAM appeared to hang when
> more than 10 Firefox windows were open.
> top reported RAM full and 7GB of swap space in use.
> Closing 6 windows cleared the problem.
>
> If you can get top running in a terminal window the memory display
> near the top of the screen shows RAM and swap usage.
>
> geoff steckel
>
Thanks, that's what I'm doing right now, opened ungoogled-chromiun with
some windows opened, crawl-ss, and I'm gonna start my vmd up...will see
;)

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