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From: James Harris <james.harris.1@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Linux doesn't seem to manage memory very well
Date: Wed, 1 May 2024 11:32:18 +0100
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Not a question, just an observation.

I say that Linux doesn't seem to handle memory well because my laptop 
had 8GB RAM (which, frankly, Windows seems to find perfectly adequate 
for a similar workload). Under Linux the RAM would fill up and then swap 
space would be used. Then the machine would become largely unresponsive 
- e.g. taking minutes to switch between windows.

So I upgraded the RAM. It now has three times as much (i.e. 24GB)! But 
even so, RAM has still steadily filled up until reaching the full 24GB. 
What's more, it's now showing 4.8GB of swap space in use.


-- 
James Harris