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by otabdeveloper4 1521 days ago
> Eh, I’ve never seen a machine actually use any notable amount of swap and not be functionally death spiraling.

For my low-end notebook with solid-state storage I set the kernel's swappiness setting to 100 percent and this problem got magically fixed. It's rock-solid now.

I don't know how it works but it does.