Re: Reasonably simple setup for 1TB HDD and 250GB M.2 NVMe SSD

["hdv@gmail" <hdv.jadev@gmail.com>]

On 2021-12-09 15:46, Dan Ritter wrote:
> hdv@gmail wrote:
> > On 2021-12-08 15:27, Jorge P. de Morais Neto wrote:
> > > Hi everyone!  I have a Dell Inspiron 5570 laptop with 1TB HDD and 16 GiB
> > > RAM (it supports 32 GiB).  I am about to buy an M.2 NVMe 250GB SSD---a
>   
> > Regarding the swap space: I wouldn't make it so big. That really isn't
> > necessary. I have a 64GB RAM system here, on which I have 2GB of swap. I
> > doubt I have ever seen conky show me more than 35% use. And I am quite a
> > heavy user of system resources (much 3D CAD editing, photo editing, video
> > editing and rendering, and often multiple VM's in use).
> >
> > My laptop has 32GB of RAM and 2 GB of swap and on that system I haven't seen
> > much swapping either.
>
> Swap is where a laptop stores RAM during suspend-to-disk, the long
> term hibernation suspension. Without at least as much swap as
> RAM, you are limited to suspend-to-RAM.
>
> In a more perfect world, the space for suspension would not
> otherwise be treated as swap space.
>
> -dsr-

It certainly was the reason why I always had swap at least as big as RAM 
in the past on my laptops. However, I have not had any trouble 
suspending or hibernating my laptops in the years since I reduced swap 
to 2GB. That is just my experience, and it may not be the same for 
others. But it might help the thread starter to know this is a feasible 
option (depending on their use case).

P.S. I am on the list. It is sufficient to just reply to the list for me 
to receive your message.

Grx HdV