On Sun, 2022-01-16 at 11:11 -0600, Richard Shaw wrote:
What are you doing that would require that much disk swap? And even if it did the performance would be pretty bad unless you're running an SSD/NVMe drive, and even if you are, in memory swap would still be faster.
With me, I can only ever recall paging going troppo when some badly written website triggers some flaw in my web browser, or a media player failing to cope with a badly encoded video file. They're the only two things I can ever remember triggering mad swapping. It can be murder trying to fix that without hard resetting the computer hardware.
If I'm lucky I notice it quickly, and CTRL ALT BACKSPACE to kill X, as about the only thing that responds to me. Even moving the mouse pointer is like trying to run the mouse over a corrugated iron mousepad with a severely delayed response on screen.
But if I don't notice it quickly, it could spend hours with the CPU fans blasting at full speed as it tries to divide the universe by zero before doing anything else.