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Not sure why that is, but I have 32 GB of RAM and I would like my system to utilize it as much as possible, but as you can see in the screenshot, the system is only using 5.66 GB of the physical RAM, but swap is still being used in a high number. Is this normal? Should I lower the swappiness to lower than 10? Should I let it be? Thanks
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[–] Luci@lemmy.ca 62 points 10 months ago (6 children)

Don't mess with things you don't understand.

Don't listen to this advice. Messing with things you don't understand is how you learn your OS. Mess with it, break it, then RTFM and fix it. That's how ya learn!!

[–] gi1242@lemmy.world 46 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (4 children)

you should especially do this on Friday 5:00pm in production, right before going on an international vacation with bad Internet.

[–] penquin@lemm.ee 11 points 10 months ago

😂 I love this.

[–] TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

I've had to explain to three different people that they're not getting a production window on Christmas Eve. I'm the only person in the office from the day after Christmas until January 2.

[–] Luci@lemmy.ca 1 points 10 months ago
[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Just before a big presentation is also one of the best times. You have a few minutes to waste, why not spend then optimising stuff?

[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 10 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Or just RTFM first and learn without breaking stuff.

[–] naeap@sopuli.xyz 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Nah, without breaking stuff, you never really learn

Hands-on experience is important.

Edit: obviously don't do this with production machines, but I thought that was given...

[–] pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] qprimed@lemmy.ml 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

pretty much. learning things without a corresponding "oh... shit." moment, just never quite stick with you the same way.

[–] penquin@lemm.ee 4 points 10 months ago

This is 100% it. The sleepless nights I've spent hunting for solutions after nuking everything, taught me a great deal. It was even so much fun, too.

[–] Luci@lemmy.ca 3 points 10 months ago

No fun. Nothing learned.

[–] thingsiplay@beehaw.org 1 points 10 months ago

Pain is the best teacher.

[–] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That's great if you treat your computer as a toy. But if you actually need it to do work then that's terrible advice.

Destroy a virtual machine first, not your actual computer.

[–] penquin@lemm.ee 6 points 10 months ago

I have a whole machine that I don't touch for stuff like this to get my actual work done on. This one is for learning and fucking shit up. Lol

[–] penquin@lemm.ee 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Nah, homie, fucking shit up then spending your whole evening looking for solutions is what makes it so much fun. lol

[–] Luci@lemmy.ca 5 points 10 months ago

If your googling is about to take you to the arch wiki, you're having a good night!

[–] luciferofastora@lemmy.zip 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

tinkers with pulseaudio
"Why does my audio not work?"
tinkers more
"Okay I think it kinda works now?"
it breaks again
"fml"

I found the docs for pulseaudio and particularly for pipewire to be rather hard to use, personally. RTFM works if the manual is readable, but in these cases, the learning curve was very steep for me (and I still don't know that I properly understood what's going on, but it's working, so I've stopped tinkering for now).

[–] Luci@lemmy.ca 1 points 10 months ago

You're not really RTFM unless you're digging into source code comments

[–] thingsiplay@beehaw.org 4 points 10 months ago

Learning by doing, but make backups.