Xamarin now free in Visual Studio, and Xamarin SDK being open-sourced

Re:Xamarin now free in Visual Studio, and Xamarin SDK being ... by brobinson on Thursday March 31, 2016 @05:27PM (#11400683)

Turn off swap and clear your caches to see your true ram usage:

    swapoff -a -v
    echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches

I recommend `htop` to check out your memory usage after that.

You can also tweak the vm.swapiness variable to change Linux's behavior there. I personally just turn swap off on all my systems as soon as I set them up.

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Re:Xamarin now free in Visual Studio, and Xamarin SDK being ... by mkl on Thursday March 31, 2016 @08:13PM (#11401613)

What happens if you turn off swap while using more virtual memory than you have RAM?

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Re:Xamarin now free in Visual Studio, and Xamarin SDK being ... by brobinson on Thursday March 31, 2016 @11:03PM (#11402262)

I imagine the OOM killer would take out a process. In that case, I would suggest paying for some more ram before turning off swap. Swap is death for performance! :)

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Re:Xamarin now free in Visual Studio, and Xamarin SDK being ... by nbevans on Friday April 01, 2016 @06:46AM (#11403922)

But necessary.

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