On 08/04/2019 07:32 PM, Tim via users wrote:
On Sun, 2019-08-04 at 12:16 -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
All last week I ran with 4GB real memory and a total of 8GB swap.
I was using all the real memory and pretty much 4GB of swap with poor performance.
I think I'd consider 4 gig of RAM a bare minimum, these days. As memory size has gone up, programmers seem to have abandoned trying to be efficient.
If your prior install was apparently okay, you might have been just on the boundary between where things ran smoothly and were close to grinding through swap to operate.
When my systems started to go through swap, usually from firefox going doolallay with some badly written site, it was usually unrecoverable. I had to quit it real quick, or I could spend the next hour trying to get the computer to do a clean shutdown.
Use GParted to shrink your swap and expand your normal space. You should probably not need more than 4 GiB swap. If your repo doesn't have GParted, you can download a copy and run it from a self-booting disk. I have used it many times to move partitions around, especially to reclaim the mess that Windows 10 makes on a new computer.
--doug