swap make pc slow after a while

[AntonioPt]

Hello all and especial @peebee
So i got a question after 2 weeks running my LunarPup i notice my swap was allmost full and i wasn't doing much in my machine basicly listen to music irc most of the time

So my question is how can i clean swap once in a while i know i need to use swapoff -a and swapon -a to clean it but is there an automatic way to do it ? since i notice after a while pc was slow because of that txx in advange

Swap: 1,9 GiB Total (713,7 MiB Free) After 2 weeks straight
Swap: 1,9 GiB Total (1,8 GiB Free) after i run swapoff -a and swapon -a

[wizard]

@AntonioPt

You could make a simple bash script that runs swapoff -a and swapon -a, then set it up as a pschedule task.

wizard

[mikewalsh]

@AntonioPt :-

Coupla questions.....if I may?

- How much RAM does your machine have in total?
- What do you have your "swappiness" level set to? My guess is that it's still set to the default setting of '60', which is what all distros ship with by default, OOTB...

Mike.

[AntonioPt]

Hello @mikewalsh and @wizard
hope all good some here
wizard im about to do that i have read this article https://askubuntu.com/questions/1357/ho ... s-free-ram that @Pikaxhu send me but still no luck unless i make the script "me guessing"

mikewalsh so my machine has 1gb of ram so its ...
- What do you have your "swappiness" level set to? well lunarpup didn't have no settings so i add it in /etc/sysctl.conf this vm.swappiness=10 but still nuthing but im think im gonna make a script or use the one that is in the article i just share

Best regards António

[hikohan]

After run full backup or Browser Chat several hours,
swap useage may increase and cause Puppy performance slower...

Add follow script in pSschedule cron every hour or run it manually.

Code: Select all

#!/bin/sh

echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
sync
echo 2 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
sync

swapoff -a
sleep 1
swapon -a

This works for me. Enjoy your Puppy Linux!

Conky could monitor system CPU/Memory/Swapping/Storage usage every seconds on desktop.