So, I've run into what I consider a concerning amount of CPU hogging due to kswap and running out of physical RAM/loading up the swap in the default Ubuntu MATE install.
2 gigs + 1 gig swap is a bit light to multitask anything in a GUI, especially if one of those tasks is Chromium.
So...
Anyone done anything to mitigate this?
It doesn't appear to be too terribly easy to fix this stuff live, which is not shocking as the default root fs is the one I would need to shrink.
I'm leaning toward grabbing a low-profile USB flash drive and using it as a lower priority swap than the default zram (which seems pretty zippy as it is supposed to be but is too small IMO for many things), but if anyone has a simple or elegant solution, I might try it.
Anyone try to use resize2fs from an SD card? Anyone try that+swap on the eMMC vs a USB drive and compared performance?
2 gigs + 1 gig swap is a bit light to multitask anything in a GUI, especially if one of those tasks is Chromium.
So...
Anyone done anything to mitigate this?
It doesn't appear to be too terribly easy to fix this stuff live, which is not shocking as the default root fs is the one I would need to shrink.
I'm leaning toward grabbing a low-profile USB flash drive and using it as a lower priority swap than the default zram (which seems pretty zippy as it is supposed to be but is too small IMO for many things), but if anyone has a simple or elegant solution, I might try it.
Anyone try to use resize2fs from an SD card? Anyone try that+swap on the eMMC vs a USB drive and compared performance?
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