Tag Archives: Swap

Simple Bug, Or Yet Another SystemD Screwage?

Posted on 6 September 2019 by E.M.Smith

Adventures in Ubuntu SystemD Administration Land – The CIFS mount random mount point and persistent double mounting oddity / bug roller coaster, plus the Swap square dance… Continue reading →

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The SystemD Armbian Pine64 Swap Trap

Posted on 18 February 2019 by E.M.Smith

What happens when you open a high page weight browser page on a limited memory machine without enough swap? Continue reading →

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Firefox Is A Memory Hog With Memory Freeing Issues

Posted on 12 May 2018 by E.M.Smith

Adventures in Macintosh land with mini-SD card performance / size limits and FireFox excessive memory use (leak?) and Macintosh sloppy swap management… Continue reading →

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SystemD Depends on Swap

Posted on 13 January 2017 by E.M.Smith

Today my system seemed to hang but was really just glacially slow. It looks like systemD was in a D diskwait state waiting on swap (or potentially some file read / write) and thus couldn’t do it’s job until that resolved… its job being ‘run everything’, that hurts… Continue reading →

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