06-14-2019, 12:11 PM
Hi,
Maybe deactivating the swap would help (i.e. forcing Linux to use RAM and less HDD usage).
I have never tried it and maybe it's a bad idea, Linux Mentors could confirm, but...
Coming from the Widnows world I would sometimes deactivated swap (pagefile.sys) to "force" Widnows to use RAM (idea came with first SSD generation a few years back).
Some stupid Widnows programs "NEED" the swap though, so I had to install a RAMDisk program which makes a virtual harddisk in RAM and put the Windows Swap there (I put it at 1024MB).
Yes, I know this defeated the whole purpose of a swap
but never had problems "then" and probably saved a few years usage on that old-school SSD.
Note : Was on W7 and this trick stopped working in W10. I didn't check if possible anymore.
Warning / disclaimer or whatever : Maybe Linux also "needs" the swap so, I don't know if this will prevent the OS from booting. Try on unimportant machine, virtual machine first. If reallly stuck with one PC, tell me I'll try this on the week-end.
Maybe deactivating the swap would help (i.e. forcing Linux to use RAM and less HDD usage).
I have never tried it and maybe it's a bad idea, Linux Mentors could confirm, but...
Coming from the Widnows world I would sometimes deactivated swap (pagefile.sys) to "force" Widnows to use RAM (idea came with first SSD generation a few years back).
Some stupid Widnows programs "NEED" the swap though, so I had to install a RAMDisk program which makes a virtual harddisk in RAM and put the Windows Swap there (I put it at 1024MB).
Yes, I know this defeated the whole purpose of a swap
but never had problems "then" and probably saved a few years usage on that old-school SSD.Note : Was on W7 and this trick stopped working in W10. I didn't check if possible anymore.
Warning / disclaimer or whatever
: Maybe Linux also "needs" the swap so, I don't know if this will prevent the OS from booting. Try on unimportant machine, virtual machine first. If reallly stuck with one PC, tell me I'll try this on the week-end.
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