On 04/02/2017 17:56, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Saturday 04 Feb 2017 17:32:53 Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> Modern kernels DO get nervous if they have no swap at all - it's used >> internally. So make a small amount of swap to make the kernel happy, say >> 64M or so. Yes, megs. >> >> And if your machine sleeps to disk you will need swap large enough to >> store the memory image - it has to go somewhere and that is swap. >> >> That's my advice. Now let the nay-sayers begin the argument > > No argument from me, Alan. It isn't just the kernel that gets nervous - I do > too if I don't have any swap available. I have 32 GB and an 8 GB swap, which > I'm thinking of reducing (the swap, that is). My SSD is only 256 GB and my > boinc partition has filled up today, so I need to recover some unused space. >
I'd be much more nervous about swap on SSD tbh. I can't imagine that working well, by it's nature swap is write-heavy -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
