Uploaded July 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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In this video I run a few experiments with swap configurations. I also pull from my experience of Proxmox use to see what might be a better configuration for your use case. I run tests on different swap drives, zswap, and zram.

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00:00 Intro
00:53 What is swap
01:28 Performance Impact of using swap
04:48 Swap on host or guest
05:55 Swappiness
06:43 ZFS ARC
07:28 Testing swappiness and OOM killer
09:02 Real world experiences
10:44 Conclusion