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Hi,

On Wed, Dec 11, 2024 at 01:25:35PM -0800, Van Snyder wrote:
> Four core Intel i3 at 2287 MHz.
> 4 GB RAM.

I don't think I would try to run a GUI desktop environment in 2024 with
4G of RAM. Well, unless we were talking fvwm or something.

> "free -m" says swap is 34 GB with 6.2 GB or 18% in use at the moment.
> The 'Swap" graph in GKrellM is at about 10%. Who is right?

I don't think it matters really as 34G of swap is unreasonable on this
system and using any significant amount of swap for interactive
applications will lead to the computer running like a dog.

Is this system at its max of memory? If not, then maxing it out will be
a very cheap upgrade that will be absolutely worth it. If you don't know
if it's maxed, tell us the motherboard, show us the output of "sudo
lshw" or something.

If it's not running off of flash storage already then doing that will
also be well worth it, but I wouldn't bother unless the memory can be
increased first.

If you're not going to be able to increase the memory then I would
either turn off swap (or dramatically reduce its amount *and* adjust
swappiness down) or I would launch firefox by a script that caps its
total virtual memory at 3G or something. It means firefox will crash
before it makes the computer unusable.

Thanks,
Andy

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