Your message dated Sat, 23 Nov 2024 12:03:14 +0100
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and subject line Re: #969450 partman-auto: on a machine with 384 Gb Ram and 512
Gb SSD, creates 400 Gb swap partition
has caused the Debian Bug report #969450,
regarding partman-auto: on a machine with 384 Gb Ram and 512 Gb SSD, creates
400 Gb swap partition
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Package: partman-auto
Severity: important
Tags: d-i
Dear Maintainer,
I was a bit surprised when I did a quick Debian Stable install on my new
workstation (384 Gb RAM, 512 Gb ssd) and ended up with just 80 Gb usable
diskspace, thanks to a 400 Gb swap partition that the Debian installer created.
I think a warning/question when more than 25% of the disk is used as swap-space
would be in order. I would think that computer-owners who install large amounts
of memory carefully install enough memory to not swap excessively.
After re-installing, this seems a lot saner:
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 377Gi 842Mi 219Gi 9.0Mi 157Gi 374Gi
Swap: 44Gi 0B 44Gi
Debian Release: 10.5
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-10-amd64 (SMP w/24 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL
set to en_US.UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to
en_US.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
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--- Begin Message ---
> I was a bit surprised when I did a quick Debian Stable install on my new
> workstation (384 Gb RAM, 512 Gb ssd) and ended up with just 80 Gb usable
> diskspace, thanks to a 400 Gb swap partition that the Debian installer
> created. I think a warning/question when more than 25% of the disk is used as
> swap-space would be in order. I would think that computer-owners who install
> large amounts of memory carefully install enough memory to not swap
> excessively.
For such machines with that much RAM (which is a typical server setup) we have
just introduced a dedicated recipe ("server") for auto-partitioning, which
limits the swapsize to 1G.
That should do it here.
So closing this bug
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