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Bug#969450: marked as done (partman-auto: on a machine with 384 Gb Ram and 512 Gb SSD, creates 400 Gb swap partition)

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has caused the Debian Bug report #969450,
regarding partman-auto: on a machine with 384 Gb Ram and 512 Gb SSD, creates 400 Gb swap partition
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Package: partman-auto
Severity: important
Tags: d-i

Dear Maintainer,

I was a bit surprised when I did a quick Debian Stable install on my new workstation (384 Gb RAM, 512 Gb ssd) and ended up with just 80 Gb usable diskspace, thanks to a 400 Gb swap partition that the Debian installer created. I think a warning/question when more than 25% of the disk is used as swap-space would be in order. I would think that computer-owners who install large amounts of memory carefully install enough memory to not swap excessively.

After re-installing, this seems a lot saner:

              total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
Mem:          377Gi       842Mi       219Gi       9.0Mi       157Gi       374Gi
Swap:          44Gi          0B        44Gi

Debian Release: 10.5
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-10-amd64 (SMP w/24 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

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> I was a bit surprised when I did a quick Debian Stable install on my new 
> workstation (384 Gb RAM, 512 Gb ssd) and ended up with just 80 Gb usable 
> diskspace, thanks to a 400 Gb swap partition that the Debian installer 
> created. I think a warning/question when more than 25% of the disk is used as 
> swap-space would be in order. I would think that computer-owners who install 
> large amounts of memory carefully install enough memory to not swap excessively.

For such machines with that much RAM (which is a typical server setup) we have 
just introduced a dedicated recipe ("server") for auto-partitioning, which 
limits the swapsize to 1G.
That should do it here.

So closing this bug


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