Re: Swap

Eric S Fraga <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.user.laptop
Organization CPSE, Department of Chemical Engineering, University College London (UCL)
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
On Thursday,  4 Feb 2016 at 12:53, Felipe Duque wrote:
> I guess it depends on your RAM usage. Currently I have an 8GB RAM
> laptop but my usage never goes beyond 6GB (even doing scientific
> computations) so I didn't bother allocating more then 1GB for my swap
> partition.

I concur.  For my use case, if I needed more than 1GB of swap, the
system would likely end up thrashing so I only typically allocate 1GB
for RAM >= 4GB.
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