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
