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Dragonfish Swap issue

Latest version of Scale called Dragonfish-24.04.0 has an issue with using more system memory for ZFS cache and causes sluggish performance and outright unresponsiveness. 

The fix is below

  1. Log into the shell
  2. run the following commands
    1. sysctl vm.swappiness=0
      1. This tells the kernel to avoid swap
    2. swapoff -a &
      1. turns swap off entirely
    3. top
      1. System monitor for active process. Monitor for SWAP usage. Should see SWAP usage drop to 0