On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 11:42:47AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > This sounds handy on a memory starved machine. And at 8GB in this > machine, I'm still using swap, with a 13 hour uptime, 22megs almost as > soon as I'd rebooted, and still 22. Which I don't fully grok, htop says > 22 megs used for swap, and only about 60% of that 8GB in use.
Freeing up the memory used by idle daemons and other layabouts lets the system devote more memory to disk caching.
