Re: Bullseye default swap partition size?
On 1/8/22, Georgi Naplatanov <gosho@oles.biz> 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)
> don't create swap partition or swap file at all. In case of SSD (Solid
> State Disk) you can look at this wiki [1]
>
> [1] https://wiki.debian.org/SSDOptimization
Saw the two mentions of having no swap and decided to chime in that I
DO use swap, and so do my laptops accordinly. On a blessed day, I have
8GB ram. To the good or the bad of this particular User CHOICE, I try
to remember to figure in 9 to 13 GB swap for my installations.
"free -m" just now shocked me by saying this HP is only using 89mb of
swap. Genuine shock. I'm used to that number being more like 6GB of
swap in use. I'm impressed because this session has been up about six
hours and has headed into hibernation umpteen number of times the
entire time.
Thank you, Developers! I agree that things swapping in and out
painfully clog the system. Currently running up-to-date Bookworm, by
the way.
Cindy :)
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Cindy-Sue Causey
Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA
* runs with birdseed *
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