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Swap space is an area of the hard disk that serves as an overflow when the computer memory is full. The memory used by inactive applications is partially written out to disk to make room for other applications and for the disk cache for active files.

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I am using Kubuntu which is Ubuntu with KDE. My swap partition is too small causing me some lag. I have 16GB Ram but it is set to 1.9GB. Attached is screen shots of my current partition. vgkubuntu is ...
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this is the first time I encounter a swap issue, I'm lost about how Linux is supposed to behave. I have a RHEL virtual machine running a batch processing RAM intensive application (100+GB RAM, 1GB ...
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I have recently installed Debian 13 with encryption for both my main drive and swap. My root (sda3) LUKS volume unlocks fine and mounts. My swap (sda4) was set up as encrypted swap with random key (...
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Suppose process A has been preempted to allow process B to run. If system memory is low and the kernel needs to reclaim memory for process B, is it possible for the page tables of process A to be ...
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I wanted to disable cryptswap on my PopOS (an Ubuntu derivative). Used mkswap to re-initialize the swap partition Edited /etc/fstab to directly reference it (as opposed to a crypto device) Removed ...
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I have a Raspberry PI 5 with 8GB of ram. I have allocated a zram swap partition with disksize of 1GB, which after a few days is now being used. $ free -hw total used free ...
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I'am trying to make my laptop to hibernate , but it can't , showing me an error (call to hibernate failed : not enough swap space for hibernate ) so my old swap partition was 1giga so i extended it to ...
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I have the same problem on all servers running Java processes. I have lots of available memory. But my swap is full of Java-related pages. But the system never cleans its swap, Java pages stay there &...
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