Re: Swap
real bas <[email protected]>
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Swap is not designed to 'increase the RAM'? So that when we don't have RAM will use the swap? For me the swap is only used when we don't have RAM then swap will be used (the access is very slow because is located in disk). 2016-02-04 15:10 GMT-03:00 Eric S Fraga <[email protected]>: > On Thursday, 4 Feb 2016 at 16:12, [email protected] wrote: > > Hi, > > swap space is crucial if you suspend or hibernate your system. > > I am curious: why and how? IIUC, neither suspend nor hibernate use > swap. Or have I misunderstood? > > Hibernate, in particular, saves everything to disk so RAM should not be > an issue. I could see, maybe, how suspend may need some swap, mind you, > as it does use RAM but very little over and above what is currently > being used by the running programs? > > -- > : Eric S Fraga, GnuPG: 0xFFFCF67D > : in Emacs 25.0.50.1 + Ma Gnus v0.14 + evil-git-ff74cfb > : BBDB version 3.1.2 (2015-10-28 10:47:01+00:00) > >