Re: Linux doesn't seem to manage memory very well

On 01.05.2024 um 11:32 Uhr James Harris wrote:

I say that Linux doesn't seem to handle memory well because my laptop
had 8GB RAM (which, frankly, Windows seems to find perfectly adequate
for a similar workload). Under Linux the RAM would fill up and then
swap space would be used. Then the machine would become largely
unresponsive

Check the swapiness settings.

- e.g. taking minutes to switch between windows.
 
So I upgraded the RAM. It now has three times as much (i.e. 24GB)!
But even so, RAM has still steadily filled up until reaching the full
24GB.

It uses the RAM as a disk cache - for caching files from the disk and
for caching files to be written when the disk is in use.


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kind regards
Marco

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