Hi all,
Does anyone know an easy way on how to free up my swap? I can see that there’s enough RAM available:
# free -m
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 983 316 88 9 578 470
Swap: 1023 266 757
Thanks!
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Hello,
I would usually use the following command:
swapoff -a && swapon -a &
The &
sign at the end would start the process in the background, then I would run the following to watch how the data is being copied from the SWAP to RAM:
watch free -m
It is important to have enough RAM available before running this.
Hope that this helps! Regards, Bobby
This process may take a while, use gnome-system-monitor to monitor and verify the progress.