Re: Swap

[real bas <realbas89@gmail.com>]

Swap is not designed to 'increase the RAM'? So that when we don't have RAM will use the swap?

For me the swap is only used when we don't have RAM then swap will be used (the access is very slow because is located in disk).

2016-02-04 15:10 GMT-03:00 Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk>:

On Thursday,  4 Feb 2016 at 16:12, f0g@bluewin.ch wrote:
> Hi,
> swap space is crucial if you suspend or hibernate your system.

I am curious: why and how?  IIUC, neither suspend nor hibernate use
swap.  Or have I misunderstood?

Hibernate, in particular, saves everything to disk so RAM should not be
an issue.  I could see, maybe, how suspend may need some swap, mind you,
as it does use RAM but very little over and above what is currently
being used by the running programs?

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