so i set up proxmox a while back and its installer doesn’t partition disks for swap space. so i used a zvol to create swap. i noticed that some containers just absolutely lose it for some reason when they begin swapping. it makes no sense and i haven’t quite figured out the reason why. it seems related to older posts about proxmox losing swap control because cgroup2 was not implemented but later it seems that this was supposed to be fixed. swapping is typically abnormal anyways. the solution was to just give the main culprit more ram and disable swap. this seems to be doing the trick but i would like to sort out exactly why this is happening. i don’t want to bump into oom (out of memory) issues in the container (which has been given 16GB of my 64GB in my awesome ryzen proxmox server).
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