Tag: stress-ng

Dynamic swap files are created only when needed

Posted by Alex On February 21, 2022

Swapspace is an excellent dynamic swap space manager The disadvantage of large swap files is that they take up a lot of disk space even during those periods when programs have enough RAM and swap files are not used. Related articles: How to create or enlarge a Swap file in Kali Linux What happens if Linux runs out of RAM....

How to check Swap file usage in Linux

Posted by Alex On February 21, 2022

The swap file will be used when the physical memory runs out. In order to check the operation of the Swap file, you need to artificially use up all the RAM. You don’t need to run many applications and open dozens of tabs in your web browser to do this, instead you can use stress testing tools like stress-ng. See...
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