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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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20gb ram, 10gb zram, 10gb swap, default values. What should I change? (lemmy.world)

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I assume I should get rid of most of the swap. I also read somewhere to increase... swappiness of zram?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Odd consideration, but... I use 16Gb of ram and I have zero swap space and I've never seen a freeze in the three years this system has been assembled.

You won't see big problems until you use most of the ram, then you're toast. Also Linux (if that's what you're using) prefers to have more cache at the expense of swapping out pages. There's a lot of rarely used code on many apps that can be safely swapped out to get you more cache.