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Swapfile spindles, and perceived performance. You must try this!
This is really fascinating for all you computer junkies.
This article is mainly about swap-file spindles and the perceived
performance of a Linux and Windows computer.
Later, I will talk about the /tmp directory of Linux and Windows temporary (*.tmp. ,*.temp) files a little.
The way I found out about this, is I had experienced a bad SATA cable and lost my root file system, so I decided to just reinstall Debian 10 (buster) over
trying to fix it. I wanted to try a different partition scheme anyways on my
box (computer).
One of the things I did was I had divided my swap-file into two
3 GB partitions, one on each of two the SSD (solid-state drive) in my
box.
So I get everything up and running again.
I have graphs on my status bar. I noticed the swap file utilization was about 3 GB which was 50% full.
I said to my self the box is running like it never ran out of ram. I
looked up the uptime. I hadn’t restarted the box for 3 days.
