On Saturday 04 Feb 2017 23:28:37 Alan McKinnon wrote: > 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
Just as well that it's hardly ever used, then. :) -- Regards Peter
