[Users] Build hangs desktop...

[Colin Leroy]

On Mon, 21 Apr 2014 20:53:29 -0400, Pierre Fortin <pf at pfortin.com>
wrote:

> Looks like no matter how much RAM I have, it eventually gets used
> up...  :} 

Unused things in RAM will get swapped in eventually, and swapped out
when needed, and this isn't usually a problem. For example, if you run
Apache locally but never visit  http://localhost, it'll get swapped.

The problems arise when things in use have to be swapped for another
thing in use, then vice-versa, etc.

Look in /proc/vmstat:

grep pswp /proc/vmstat

This gives you the number of kB swapped in/out per second. It has to be
low :)
-- 
Colin