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Barricade
1628d · Linux
Despite swappiness is set to 0, my Ubuntu still uses the swap memory and the system eventually gets frozen without earlyoom. Doesn't matter if I use Brave or Firefox. Sugestions?
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Did you drop caches?
Barricade
replied 1626d
No, but I should do it periodically, as I watch lots of videos on YT.
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How much ram do you have in your pc and which desktop environment do you use?
Barricade
replied 1626d
4 GB RAM, Unity. Maybe I should add more RAM.
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or change desktop environment. Even on 8GB ram i struggled on gnome.
Barricade
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Thank you for the advice, I'll try that.
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you're welcome. good luck :-)