On Tue, Jun 27, 2023 at 2:40 AM Samuel Sieb <samuel@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 6/26/23 23:20, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 27, 2023 at 2:14 AM Samuel Sieb <samuel@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> > >> On 6/26/23 20:48, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > >>> > >>> I've got a Fedora 38 install (upgrade from F37). The install happened > >>> with Anaconda. Anaconda created the compressed memory swap file. I > >>> resized the disk and added a proper swap partition. Now I need to > >>> modify /etc/fstab and disable the compressed memory swap file. In the > >>> screen text below, /dev/nvme0n1p4 is the new partition. > >>> > >>> My Google-fu really sucks today. I cannot find a discussion of it. > >>> > >>> How do I modify fstab to remove the compressed memory swap file? > >> > >> Why would you want to? > > > > The compiler is crashing in cc1plus. I'm out-of-memory on a machine > > with 16GB of RAM. Effectively I'm DoS'd with the btrfs default > > strategy. Time to do something different... like get rid of that > > compressed swap file in RAM, use a real swap file, and use memory for > > programs. > > It has nothing to do with btrfs. That's just the default and it works > really well. You get lots of "extra" memory without the lag of going to > the disk. You could add the disk swap as well. You don't have to > remove the zram for that. I guess that's in the eye of the beholder. I don't like being DoS'd. Fedora with btrfs is worse than Solaris. Solaris will work with 8 GB of RAM (but usually not less). Fedora can't operate with 16 GB. Ugh... I'll install a different OS to sidestep the problem. Jeff _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
