# Increase swap? **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussion\ **Created:** [16 October 2021 09:25 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/increase-swap/5828 "2021-10-16T09:25:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![kannz](https://dietpi.com/forum/user_avatar/dietpi.com/kannz/32/4666_2.png) [@kannz](https://dietpi.com/forum/u/kannz)\ **Post date:** [16 October 2021 09:25 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/increase-swap/5828/1 "2021-10-16T09:25:16Z")
Heyo my C2 isn’t having any problems so far but it does say it’s using all the swap allocated. Should I increase the swap? It doesn’t seem to be using all of the ram…at the moment it’s using 212mb of 1.69gb of ram. ---
**Author:** ![Joulinar](https://dietpi.com/forum/user_avatar/dietpi.com/joulinar/32/57_2.png) [@Joulinar](https://dietpi.com/forum/u/Joulinar)\ **Post date:** [16 October 2021 12:48 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/increase-swap/5828/2 "2021-10-16T12:48:39Z")
Could you share following pls ```nohighlight free -m ``` ---
**Author:** ![kannz](https://dietpi.com/forum/user_avatar/dietpi.com/kannz/32/4666_2.png) [@kannz](https://dietpi.com/forum/u/kannz)\ **Post date:** [16 October 2021 14:57 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/increase-swap/5828/3 "2021-10-16T14:57:31Z")
```nohighlight total used free shared buff/cache available Mem: 1727 478 18 3 1230 1222 Swap: 320 55 265 ``` ---
**Author:** ![trendy](https://dietpi.com/forum/user_avatar/dietpi.com/trendy/32/61_2.png) [@trendy](https://dietpi.com/forum/u/trendy)\ **Post date:** [16 October 2021 18:42 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/increase-swap/5828/4 "2021-10-16T18:42:05Z")
You are using less than half of the available memory. Swap should not even be used at that point, although a small part of it is. Take in consideration that swap is much slower than ram, so if it really starts running on swap it will become sluggish. Personally I turn off swap in my small boards to avoid any read/writes on the sd card. ---
**Author:** ![Joulinar](https://dietpi.com/forum/user_avatar/dietpi.com/joulinar/32/57_2.png) [@Joulinar](https://dietpi.com/forum/u/Joulinar)\ **Post date:** [16 October 2021 21:58 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/increase-swap/5828/5 "2021-10-16T21:58:49Z")
well there are 18MB memory free only as quite a lot is used on file system cache. Therefore SWAP is going to be used. You could increase SWAP to ensure having enough memory available. ---
**Author:** ![kannz](https://dietpi.com/forum/user_avatar/dietpi.com/kannz/32/4666_2.png) [@kannz](https://dietpi.com/forum/u/kannz)\ **Post date:** [16 October 2021 22:20 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/increase-swap/5828/6 "2021-10-16T22:20:53Z")
how do I increase swap? I dont mind if my sdcard dies after a few months or so as its just a 8gb ---
**Author:** ![Joulinar](https://dietpi.com/forum/user_avatar/dietpi.com/joulinar/32/57_2.png) [@Joulinar](https://dietpi.com/forum/u/Joulinar)\ **Post date:** [16 October 2021 22:22 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/increase-swap/5828/7 "2021-10-16T22:22:41Z")
how much space you have free on your SD card? Just to not grab all your disk space 🕶 ```nohighlight df -h ``` ---
**Author:** ![kannz](https://dietpi.com/forum/user_avatar/dietpi.com/kannz/32/4666_2.png) [@kannz](https://dietpi.com/forum/u/kannz)\ **Post date:** [16 October 2021 23:04 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/increase-swap/5828/8 "2021-10-16T23:04:15Z")
looks like ive used 887mb out of 7gb so i have somewhere just above 6gb free ---
**Author:** ![Joulinar](https://dietpi.com/forum/user_avatar/dietpi.com/joulinar/32/57_2.png) [@Joulinar](https://dietpi.com/forum/u/Joulinar)\ **Post date:** [16 October 2021 23:07 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/increase-swap/5828/9 "2021-10-16T23:07:02Z")
lets go with 1GB SWAP ```nohighlight /boot/dietpi/func/dietpi-set_swapfile 1024 ``` ---
**Author:** ![kannz](https://dietpi.com/forum/user_avatar/dietpi.com/kannz/32/4666_2.png) [@kannz](https://dietpi.com/forum/u/kannz)\ **Post date:** [17 October 2021 11:43 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/increase-swap/5828/10 "2021-10-17T11:43:41Z")
do I need to disable swap before changing the size? how do i do that? ---
**Author:** ![Joulinar](https://dietpi.com/forum/user_avatar/dietpi.com/joulinar/32/57_2.png) [@Joulinar](https://dietpi.com/forum/u/Joulinar)\ **Post date:** [17 October 2021 11:55 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/increase-swap/5828/11 "2021-10-17T11:55:51Z")
simply execute the command I posted above and magic happen 😉 ---
**Author:** ![kannz](https://dietpi.com/forum/user_avatar/dietpi.com/kannz/32/4666_2.png) [@kannz](https://dietpi.com/forum/u/kannz)\ **Post date:** [17 October 2021 19:26 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/increase-swap/5828/12 "2021-10-17T19:26:30Z")
looks like it’s increased to 1gb. Thank you ---
**Author:** ![kannz](https://dietpi.com/forum/user_avatar/dietpi.com/kannz/32/4666_2.png) [@kannz](https://dietpi.com/forum/u/kannz)\ **Post date:** [8 November 2021 13:50 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/increase-swap/5828/13 "2021-11-08T13:50:57Z")
heyo comin back to this topic of mine. probably no real issue. I was wondering if the large amount of files i have sitting on my hdd is making dietpi use up a lot of ram as buff/cache? ---
**Author:** ![Joulinar](https://dietpi.com/forum/user_avatar/dietpi.com/joulinar/32/57_2.png) [@Joulinar](https://dietpi.com/forum/u/Joulinar)\ **Post date:** [8 November 2021 13:56 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/increase-swap/5828/14 "2021-11-08T13:56:43Z")
It depends on how often files are used/accessed and which application is using them. Just because they are stored on a HDD, doesn’t mean they are moved into memory. ---
**Author:** ![kannz](https://dietpi.com/forum/user_avatar/dietpi.com/kannz/32/4666_2.png) [@kannz](https://dietpi.com/forum/u/kannz)\ **Post date:** [8 November 2021 14:47 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/increase-swap/5828/15 "2021-11-08T14:47:55Z")
hmm im using it for smb and pihole. also my samba share responds very quickly. how would i be able to tell if it is putting the hdd to sleep when not in use? ---
**Author:** ![kannz](https://dietpi.com/forum/user_avatar/dietpi.com/kannz/32/4666_2.png) [@kannz](https://dietpi.com/forum/u/kannz)\ **Post date:** [8 November 2021 19:23 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/increase-swap/5828/16 "2021-11-08T19:23:34Z")
how do i tell how much memory is being taken by the gpu? ---
**Author:** ![Joulinar](https://dietpi.com/forum/user_avatar/dietpi.com/joulinar/32/57_2.png) [@Joulinar](https://dietpi.com/forum/u/Joulinar)\ **Post date:** [8 November 2021 20:14 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/increase-swap/5828/17 "2021-11-08T20:14:15Z")
honestly I don’t have a C2 as all my devices are RPi. On RPi it’s configured inside config.txt ```nohighlight cat /boot/config.txt | grep gpu_mem ``` ---
**Author:** ![kannz](https://dietpi.com/forum/user_avatar/dietpi.com/kannz/32/4666_2.png) [@kannz](https://dietpi.com/forum/u/kannz)\ **Post date:** [8 November 2021 20:43 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/increase-swap/5828/18 "2021-11-08T20:43:50Z")
Says no such file or directory. Hmm looks like odroid has a dynamic gpu memory system. Doesn’t use manual allocation apparently…it uses whatever memory is not used. ---
**Author:** ![MichaIng](https://dietpi.com/forum/user_avatar/dietpi.com/michaing/32/7_2.png) [@MichaIng](https://dietpi.com/forum/u/MichaIng)\ **Post date:** [10 November 2021 13:54 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/increase-swap/5828/19 "2021-11-10T13:54:54Z")
The Odroid C2 has a fixed amount of system memory reserved for the GPU. Check: ```nohighlight free -m ``` The difference of total memory to ~2000 MiB is what the GPU/VPU uses. You can disable it via dietpi-config \> Display Options \> GPU/RAM Memory Split, which will disable all video output but restores ~300 MiB RAM for the system. It can be also changed manually via nographics setting in /boot/boot.ini. ---
**Author:** ![kannz](https://dietpi.com/forum/user_avatar/dietpi.com/kannz/32/4666_2.png) [@kannz](https://dietpi.com/forum/u/kannz)\ **Post date:** [12 November 2021 04:24 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/increase-swap/5828/20 "2021-11-12T04:24:16Z")
thank you the small amount of extra memory may help use swap a little less. 🙂 [Next page](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/increase-swap/5828.md?page=2)