When it comes to system administration, one of the earliest decisions to be made is how to configure swap space. Many readers already are thinking they know what to do: throw in as much RAM as you can ...

Let’s look at some basic commands that report on memory usage. The first that probably comes to mind is free. The free command will tell you about used and unused memory and about swap space. Physical ...

When your Linux server starts feeling sluggish, you might benefit from looking at your swap space and gauging whether it’s adequately sized for your system’s workload. Fortunately, Linux has some ...

Android 15’s new Linux Terminal app is limited to 4GB of memory, which can be insufficient for developers. A workaround involves increasing the zram size, creating a swap file, and adjusting ...

I have linux (Slackware 8.0 to be specific) installed on my computer with 384MB ram and a 768MB swap (actually slightly more but I told fdisk 768 when I created the partition). I ran 'free' in the ...