On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 3:24 PM, John Jason Jordan <[email protected]>wrote:
> > My new laptop has 16 GB RAM, so I didn't set it up with any swap at > all. If you have plenty of RAM, why even bother with a swap partition? I believe you ALWAYS want a swap partition so your system doesn't crash when you run out of real memory. Of course you don't ever want to actually use it, it's more of an insurance policy, Just In Case. 2x or 3x (or even 1x) system memory size for swap is rather too much, in my humble opinion, in the age of many-gigabyte ram systems. Even on a system with 8 GB that has never come near using up real memory I've seen a piddling amount of swap in use, which I conveniently ignore because it's not significant or worth the trouble to track down. All of the above might be obsolete, but it's how I roll. NealS _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
