Hi, On Wed, Dec 11, 2024 at 01:25:35PM -0800, Van Snyder wrote: > Four core Intel i3 at 2287 MHz. > 4 GB RAM.
I don't think I would try to run a GUI desktop environment in 2024 with 4G of RAM. Well, unless we were talking fvwm or something. > "free -m" says swap is 34 GB with 6.2 GB or 18% in use at the moment. > The 'Swap" graph in GKrellM is at about 10%. Who is right? I don't think it matters really as 34G of swap is unreasonable on this system and using any significant amount of swap for interactive applications will lead to the computer running like a dog. Is this system at its max of memory? If not, then maxing it out will be a very cheap upgrade that will be absolutely worth it. If you don't know if it's maxed, tell us the motherboard, show us the output of "sudo lshw" or something. If it's not running off of flash storage already then doing that will also be well worth it, but I wouldn't bother unless the memory can be increased first. If you're not going to be able to increase the memory then I would either turn off swap (or dramatically reduce its amount *and* adjust swappiness down) or I would launch firefox by a script that caps its total virtual memory at 3G or something. It means firefox will crash before it makes the computer unusable. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting
