Virtual Memory

  

Virtual Memory

by Craig Mayhew



Tell Ubuntu to avoid using SWAP partition with swappiness setting


By Default Ubuntu will move data in RAM onto the swap file/partition on the hard disk long before it runs out of memory. It will pick data that isn't accessed often but this can still be an annoying slow down on the…

Ubuntu   Virtual Memory   Swap Space   RAM  




Ubuntu 9.06: Load used swap space back into RAM


When I have too many applications open or one of them eats all the memory I end up with a big chunk of my swap space used. The problem is that once I've closed a few programs or killed the offending program my computer…

Linux/Ubuntu   Ubuntu 9.04   Virtual Memory   Swap Space   RAM  



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