OK :-) Best regards Nio
Den 2015-02-24 22:41, Israel skrev: > On 02/24/2015 03:36 PM, Nio Wiklund wrote: >> ... >> Swap is still useful (I meant that the advice 'twice * RAM' is >> deprecated). You need a smaller proportion of swap compared to RAM than >> before, probably because it is managed better. But the speed penalty is >> probably worse than ever, because the speed of RAM increases faster than >> the speed of HDDs. It is better with SSDs. > Yes, we are saying the same thing. Swap is useful. 2x swap is maybe > useful for Windows, but not Linux, UNLESS we are hibernating... yes > sorry I am swimming in code :) > > We are saying the same things, but I think my words are getting jumbly... >> According to this link >> >> http://askubuntu.com/questions/3369/what-is-the-difference-between-hibernate-and-suspend >> ----- >> Suspend does not turn off your computer. It puts the computer and all >> peripherals on a low power consumption mode. If the battery runs out or >> the computer turns off for some reason, the current session and unsaved >> changes will be lost. >> >> Hibernate saves the state of your computer to the hard disk and >> completely powers off. When resuming, the saved state is restored to RAM. >> ----- >> So the swap size is important to hibernate, not to suspend. > I will make sure this is evident in the text. > Thank you for being so verbose with me! > >> ... >>>> .. >> :-) > I second that smile > :D > -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~torios-dev Post to : torios-dev@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~torios-dev More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
