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Linux mint cinnamon memory usage5/30/2023 This standard turning point of 60 is in my opinion a bit too cautious, especially if you have an older system with only 2 or 4 GB of internal memory, which means that your system is continuously switching in and out of swap. For example in Linux Mint, but also in some other Ubuntu based systems, the default value for the threshold is 60, which must be interpreted as that the swap virtual memory comes into operation when 40% of the physical RAM is in use, or when 60% of the memory is left available. The before mentioned swap process is based on a certain threshold. So let’s find out how we can optimize our memory settings in Linux, or in other words, how to configure our system swap settings optimally. But in practice some Linux systems switch over much too soon. But using swap, which is based on your hard drive or SSD, as virtual memory, is of course much slower than your physical internal memory, so it should be used only when this additional memory is really required. The swap is a technique to use a special swap partition or swap file as additional virtual working memory, when the Operating System thinks that is required. It is done in such a way that if your memory usage reaches a certain threshold or percentage of the total internal memory that is available for your Operating System, it is switching over to use what is called the swap space. Many Linux distributions are not optimally configured out of the box.
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