On Sun, 10 Nov 2019 at 20:44, Code Zombie <codezombie724(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Some more info following my last Email, Swap is 8GB (equal to memory)
and
the hard disk is a 2-year old 250 GB SSD.
On Sun, Nov 10, 2019 at 3:41 PM Code Zombie <codezombie724(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I recently installed a fresh Fedora 31 in order to improve performance. I
> have started to have a new problem. When my memory fills up when launching
> an Android emulator, the system starts acting very slowly and becomes quite
> unresponsive. I used to fill both memory and swap close to 100% without
> much degraded performance, but now I wonder if there has been some changes
> in Fedora memory management causing this? And after all that, once I close
> the emulator and free up some memory out of the total 8GB physical, the
> computer starts to breathe again and back to normal.
>
> - Mehdi
>
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You could try tuning swappiness to see if that improves it...
https://www.howtoforge.com/tutorial/linux-swappiness/
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/6/...
https://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?319350-Reducing-swappiness
Hope that helps!