Excuse me? > On Sep 20, 2017, at 7:41 PM, paul g <PJ.world at hotmail.com> wrote: > > Grow up and help users not hurt them with yer Coleman attitude. > > This was all off topic. > > ....zzz > > > From: tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org <tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org> on behalf of Jeff Chapin <chapinjeff at gmail.com> > Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2017 7:37 PM > To: TCLUG Mailing List > Subject: Re: [tclug-list] proc virt meaning? > > I guess I don't know what I expected. > > Sorry everyone on the list! > > On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 7:34 PM, paul g <PJ.world at hotmail.com <mailto:PJ.world at hotmail.com>> wrote: > Mock you're swap. You know who you are. Blub. > > ....zzz > > > From: tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org <mailto:tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org> <tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org <mailto:tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org>> on behalf of Jeff Chapin <chapinjeff at gmail.com <mailto:chapinjeff at gmail.com>> > Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2017 6:32 PM > > To: TCLUG Mailing List > Subject: Re: [tclug-list] proc virt meaning? > > .... Dare I ask? > > On Sep 20, 2017 1:46 AM, "paul g" <PJ.world at hotmail.com <mailto:PJ.world at hotmail.com>> wrote: > He likes it all to be manual. Just like Potter; > ....zzz > > > From: tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org <mailto:tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org> <tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org <mailto:tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org>> on behalf of Jeff Chapin <chapinjeff at gmail.com <mailto:chapinjeff at gmail.com>> > Sent: Monday, September 18, 2017 4:26 PM > To: TCLUG Mailing List > Subject: Re: [tclug-list] proc virt meaning? > > Swapoff checks that automatically -- but I usually do it when I notice that I am using a ton of swap, but not all my ram. It may just be an illusion, but it seems that when I have a browser that is starting to act up and slow, this fixes it. > > On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 4:17 PM, Justin Krejci <jus at krytosvirus.com <mailto:jus at krytosvirus.com>> wrote: > Do you check to make sure your existing swap usage and RAM usage combined does not equal a number higher than the amount of total RAM you have on the system? I am guessing flushing swap into RAM when there is not enough RAM available is a bad thing to do. > > Just curious, why do you clear your swap space like that periodically? If your swap is being used too much, perhaps you either need more RAM or else should maybe turn down your vm.swappiness in sysctl. > > On 2017-09-18 04:07 PM, Jeff Chapin wrote: >> I periodically check swap usage, and run: >> >> sudo swapoff -a; sudo swapon -a; >> >> This will force anything in swap (on disk) back into RAM. >> >> Jeff >> >> On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 4:05 PM, Steve Trapp <stevetrapp at comcast.net <mailto:stevetrapp at comcast.net>> wrote: >> Aha. I tried 'man swap' but didn't think of 'swapon'. My google search was not >> very productive, so I am thankful of your information! -Steve >> >> On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 07:16:16PM +0000, Iznogoud wrote: >> > > >> > > For GNU/Linux, how do you turn swap off and how do you turn in back on again? >> > > >> > >> > Here is the top of the manual page: >> > >> > >> > NAME >> > swapon, swapoff - enable/disable devices and files for paging and swap- >> > ping >> > >> > SYNOPSIS >> > /sbin/swapon [-h -V] >> > /sbin/swapon -a [-v] [-e] >> > /sbin/swapon [-v] [-p priority] specialfile ... >> > /sbin/swapon [-s] >> > /sbin/swapoff [-h -V] >> > /sbin/swapoff -a >> > /sbin/swapoff specialfile ... >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >> > tclug-list at mn-linux.org <mailto:tclug-list at mn-linux.org> >> > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list> >> -- >> Name: Steve Trapp >> Location: Just east of the Missippi River >> Email-address: stevetrapp<AT>comcast<DOT>net >> Homepage: comcast DROPPED ALL HOMEPAGES--Where do I put my PGP public key now? >> _______________________________________________ >> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >> tclug-list at mn-linux.org <mailto:tclug-list at mn-linux.org> >> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list> >> >> >> -- >> Jeff Chapin >> President, CedarLug, retired >> President, UNIPC, "I'll get around to it" >> President, UNI Scuba Club >> Senator, NISG, retired >> >> _______________________________________________ >> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >> tclug-list at mn-linux.org <mailto:tclug-list at mn-linux.org> >> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list> > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org <mailto:tclug-list at mn-linux.org> > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list> > > > > > -- > Jeff Chapin > President, CedarLug, retired > President, UNIPC, "I'll get around to it" > President, UNI Scuba Club > Senator, NISG, retired > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org <mailto:tclug-list at mn-linux.org> > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list> > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org <mailto:tclug-list at mn-linux.org> > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list> > > > > > -- > Jeff Chapin > President, CedarLug, retired > President, UNIPC, "I'll get around to it" > President, UNI Scuba Club > Senator, NISG, retired > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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