Re: Bullseye default swap partition size?
On Sat, 2022-01-08 at 19:18 +0200, Georgi Naplatanov wrote:
> On 1/8/22 18:54, John Conover wrote:
> >
> > I just installed Bullseye, using default "use entire disk" as the HD
> > configuration from the Graphical Install option on a Live USB SD.
> >
> > The swap partition size installed on the HD is 1 GB.
> >
> > Buster, etc., used to be about the size of memory, (8 GB in my case,)
> > for the swap partition size.
> >
> > Is there a reason for such small default swap partition size on a 1 TB
> > HD in Bullseye that I don't know about?
> >
>
> Hi John,
>
> nowadays computers have a lot of RAM and some people (including me)
I stopped using swap when Windows 2000 came out [1] and I had a machine
with enough RAM for the programs I used, swap just seemed to slow
things down. At home, I fully migrated to Linux when Debian Lenny was
in testing (2008) and never bothered configuring swap, I couldn't see
the point. The only reason I can see to do so is if it's required for
the system to do suspend to disk (not anything I've used).
[1] If I remember correct, you couldn't actually disable swap, just set
it's size to the minimum of 4MB.
--
Tixy
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