Situation: increase swap size (/dev/sda3) greater than Ram (8 GB) when HD 128 GB
Motivation: 8 GB RAM is too little; 30 GB free space in my SSD; I want to turn 20 GB to SSD swap
Characteristics of system
I have been using Wake-on-LAN successfully for many years now for a number of my Linux devices. It works well enough.
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I have been looking into the iowait property shown in top utility output as shown below.
First, some background:
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