Tuesday, March 31, 2020

Introverted Operating System

My computer lately was having frequent moments of introversion, where it lost all interest in the outside world (me). It went into intensive disk activity, and froze me out. I had a difficult time tracking down the problem. I checked indexing, processes, transfers ... it appeared to be memory swapping to disk. I turned that (mostly) off. I tried, too, to shift my (Linux) operating system down from 64-bit to 32-bit -- which worked marvellously -- but 32-bit is now being phased out. Anyway, I set swappiness = 0. That was the key.

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