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Linux Swap Explained: Do You Need It?
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this post was submitted on 11 Apr 2025
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I was forced to enable swap because it I run out of RAM without swap then 95% of the time my laptop hard reboots. Adding a ton of swap fixed it.
My next issue is that sometimes it just hard-freezes. Zero warning, under no load, I can't even move the mouse. Linux on the desktop!
I added a userland OOM and now my browsers or slack dissapears and I'm confused for 5-10 secunds every time. sometimes my editor or one of the lsp servers.
cspell also leaks like crazy
Oh how do I do this? Can you choose what processes it kills first even if they're not the worst offenders?
look into early oom