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Re: Bullseye default swap partition size?





On January 9, 2022 10:02:21 AM Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de> wrote:

Am Sonntag, 9. Januar 2022, 18:45:22 CET schrieb Tixy:
However, I believe, hibernating will use the swap partition, so I think, it 
might be a good idea, to create a swap partition twice as big as the memory, 
if you want to use it.

Double the 64 GB Ram?
I'm a pig, but I seldom see more than 6 GB in use, my swaps are usually about 8.

But we run 24/7 and never hibernate... Old habits are hard to break

Of course you can use any other partition for hibernating, but for myself I 
used an encrypted swap partition for hibernation in earlier times.

A bigger swap partition will not harm your system, as modern harddrives are 
much, much bigger than memory (normally!), most systems are using 16GB or 
32GB, not many 64GB (and some 128GB and more) as RAM, but compared to 1TB , 
16GB or even 32GB is rather small. 

Maybe some people like me (I personally am using old stuff with debian) are 
just using 250GB harddrives, but we are only some dinosaurs to be left. 

Normally are 500GB ore higher capacities, so a swap drive does not harm.

Just my opinion....

Best

Hans

On Sun, 2022-01-09 at 18:19 +0200, Georgi Naplatanov wrote:
On 1/8/22 19:38, Tixy wrote:
On Sat, 2022-01-08 at 19:18 +0200, Georgi Naplatanov wrote:
[1] If I remember correct, you couldn't actually disable swap, just set
it's size to the minimum of 4MB.

it's possible not to use swap. Debian installer (in expert mode) shows a
warning if the user doesn't create swap partition.

Thanks, that's what I do. (My comment about 4MB minimum was with regard
to Windows 2000 ;-)


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