Re: Final on enlarging swap - I really needed more memory

2019-08-06 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 8/6/19 3:29 AM, Tim via users wrote: On Mon, 2019-08-05 at 14:53 -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote: I have to think if I want to facilitate hibernate when battery runs out, like on a long flight with no working AC. Or when I am just not paying attention to my power situation. I would have thou

Re: Final on enlarging swap - I really needed more memory

2019-08-06 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2019-08-06 at 19:59 +0930, Tim via users wrote: > On Mon, 2019-08-05 at 14:53 -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > > I have to think if I want to facilitate hibernate when battery runs > > out, like on a long flight with no working AC. Or when I am just not > > paying attention to my power sit

Re: Final on enlarging swap - I really needed more memory

2019-08-06 Thread Tim via users
On Mon, 2019-08-05 at 14:53 -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > I have to think if I want to facilitate hibernate when battery runs > out, like on a long flight with no working AC. Or when I am just not > paying attention to my power situation. I would have thought the ideal way for it to operate is

Re: Final on enlarging swap - I really needed more memory

2019-08-05 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 8/5/19 1:49 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 8/5/19 3:07 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: I was just looking at that basically all was running in real memory (with lots of buffer space) with no swap used, and forgot about suspend/hibernate. Only hibernate.  Suspend doesn't use the swap. I realized

Re: Final on enlarging swap - I really needed more memory

2019-08-05 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 8/5/19 3:07 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: I was just looking at that basically all was running in real memory (with lots of buffer space) with no swap used, and forgot about suspend/hibernate. Only hibernate. Suspend doesn't use the swap. ___ users

Re: Final on enlarging swap - I really needed more memory

2019-08-05 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 8/4/19 10:48 PM, Tim via users wrote: On Sun, 2019-08-04 at 16:57 -0400, Doug McGarrett wrote: Use GParted to shrink your swap and expand your normal space. You should probably not need more than 4 GiB swap. There is an advantage to having more swap than RAM: If you use a hibernate featur

Re: Final on enlarging swap - I really needed more memory

2019-08-04 Thread Tim via users
On Sun, 2019-08-04 at 16:57 -0400, Doug McGarrett wrote: > Use GParted to shrink your swap and expand your normal space. You > should probably not need more than 4 GiB swap. There is an advantage to having more swap than RAM: If you use a hibernate feature that works by dumping RAM to swap, havin

Re: Final on enlarging swap - I really needed more memory

2019-08-04 Thread Doug McGarrett
On 08/04/2019 07:32 PM, Tim via users wrote: On Sun, 2019-08-04 at 12:16 -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote: All last week I ran with 4GB real memory and a total of 8GB swap. I was using all the real memory and pretty much 4GB of swap with poor performance. I think I'd consider 4 gig of RAM a ba

Re: Final on enlarging swap - I really needed more memory

2019-08-04 Thread Tim via users
On Sun, 2019-08-04 at 12:16 -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > All last week I ran with 4GB real memory and a total of 8GB swap. > > I was using all the real memory and pretty much 4GB of swap with > poor performance. I think I'd consider 4 gig of RAM a bare minimum, these days. As memory size has

Re: Final on enlarging swap - I really needed more memory

2019-08-04 Thread sixpack13
your is an ThinkPad X140e ? according to this https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/ThinkPad-X-Series-Laptops/Unofficial-Max-RAM-Capacity-for-x120e/m-p/3717347/highlight/true#M77742 and https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/forums/v3_1/forumtopicpage/board-id/tp02_en/thread-id/37966/page/3 and https://imgur.com/a/