When I open two programs the system freezes

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Im not sure I follow, or you follow, or what even a path is.

But just in case … modifying the swappiness setting does not create SWAP.

For those settings to have any effect you will need SWAP configured and enabled.

If you need an example - here is one for creating an 8gb swapfile:

Manjaro hanging at random

A rule used to be ‘equal to RAM’ … though that is really only necessary if you want to use hibernation. If you use something like systemd-swap it will just make some on the fly as needed. If you want a set size … you might make use of a swapfile … that way you dont need to mess with partitions. Heres an example … (we will go with 8 gigs, edit as you like): To start we will create the file at a proper place: cd / && sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile bs=1M count=8192 status=progress Then we s…