Re: Swap

I have no exclusivity on intelligence. Thank you for bestowing that quality to me.

I will respond with Swap file decision. Up to 8gigs, go with 8gig swap partition. The reason for using a swap partition is twofold

a) If you loaded up a few programs and had many open files, you do not want your system to lockup because there was insufficient swap space.

b) Its an easy way to obtain continuous swap space. No such guarantee with a sequential file on /

c) I have a 120gig swap (thats the size I bought). On it I have a 8 gig swap partition.

I am programming in C, C++, learning Java, writing stuff, reading emails and blogging. I have almost 3 gigs of E-Books/pdfs on the SSD and I have 60 gigs available.

If you were in business to make money, you would be asking your programmers "Why are you trying to split hairs into four?" If your SSD is too small for your music collection, put the collection elsewhere. Put your swap file on the SSD. along with /home and /root and /boot. There will still be enough free space for all your non archival needs.

Use the SSD as you would a hard disk, and enjoy the following benefits:

a) Ruggedness (not subject to the shock damage that would stop a hard disk)

b) No seek time, no rotational delay and

c) faster rate of transfer to/from RAM.

d) You will most likely replace your computer system with a new one before the SSD dies.

Please close this topic.

Regards

Leslie

Mr. Leslie Satenstein

Montréal Québec, Canada

Some brain thoughts

Here is something to ask yourself. SoC means System On a Chip. You could buy a SoC chip with Linux pre-installed. Would there be some laptops/desktops coming soon with two or three SoCs? One chip for Video, one for I/O and Networking, and one to manage your security/applications and to manage the other two SoCs.

Second thought. Computer instructions that are not used, are lost forever. Are the cycles lost wasted?

Enjoy Linux, enjoy studying and learn as much as you can and enjoy life.

From: Matus UHLAR - fantomas <uhlar@fantomas.sk>
To: debian-laptop@lists.debian.org
Sent: Sunday, February 7, 2016 2:21 PM
Subject: Re: Swap

On 07.02.16 18:45, Michael wrote:
>Why dn't we just assume that Leslie knwos what he's doing ?? I mean, come
> on, there are lots of possibilities, like Matus' pointed out or like he
> wanted to test different desktops coming with different distros, and maybe
> even how distros do their installation.

>Why is it that so often someone asks with a problem she got ciriticised
> about what she is trying to do in the first place, instead of just
> answering the question.

I don't think that was criticising, we both wanted to advise different
approach. One thing is, if Leslie knows what's he doing, other thing is that
there may be other ways to do it. Nobody's able to remember all 20000 source
packages' features and possibilities.

While I use debian for some 20 years, I often find something that was
available for long and I didn't know about ...

[moved out]

>Going through package managers can be painfully slow.

apt-get autoremove should do that automatically. But only for .deb packages
and dependencies...

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