Zorin Lite 17 not releasing swap memory

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Do you mean these?

Swap & Swappiness Explained

------------------ What is SWAP? ------------------- A: SWAP: is a backup for DRAM. SWAPPING: Is the action of moving DRAM file's to your Hard drive. ---- How SWAP works ---- SWAP is a dedicated partition/file (space), created to assist the physical memory (DRAM). When the DRAM is full, or reaches the set parameters, the kernel will move (called: "Swapping in" or "Paging in") idle App (Data), to the SWAP space. This action frees up the DRAM. Thus running the Priority Process/Data neede…

Add a Swap partition

So I got to checking out NoHang, the low-memory handler for Linux. I ran nohang -m to test it, and it works. That got me to thinking about how much swap space I had, so I ran swapon --show... I've only got 2 GB of swap space in the sda2 partition. Well, changing the size of that partition isn't going to be easy, so I decided to set up a second swap partition, with a bit more space. I have a 4 TB USB hard drive attached... 1 TB is used as a ZFS mirror of the 1 TB internal drive, and the rest i…

I think you do need to add an entry to /etc/fstab, yes.