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Swappiness is set to 10 and the swap usage is still high (imgur.com)

submitted 1 month ago by penquin@lemm.ee to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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Not sure why that is, but I have 32 GB of RAM and I would like my system to utilize it as much as possible, but as you can see in the screenshot, the system is only using 5.66 GB of the physical RAM, but swap is still being used in a high number. Is this normal? Should I lower the swappiness to lower than 10? Should I let it be? Thanks
Here is the screenshot

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[–] RedWeasel@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

You probably just had a program(s) use a lot of ram and that pushed some processes to swap. When the system needs it, it will be moved back. I’d +1 on setting up zram. Can be setup easily on most distros.

[–] flashgnash@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That looks a lot like task manager, what tool is that?

[–] penquin@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

Mission center. It's a gnome app. I used KDE plasma, but prefer this app over the plasma one.

[–] grehund@beehaw.org 1 points 1 month ago

https://www.howtogeek.com/449691/what-is-swapiness-on-linux-and-how-to-change-it/

[–] merthyr1831@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago

https://www.linuxatemyram.com/

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 month ago (5 children)

swap is usually significantly slower than ram; are you certain that you wan to use that instead?

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