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I want to say that it really depends on this: |
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- What do you do on your system (what applications do you use, what DE, how |
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is your production ram-hungry, maybe it is some large application that |
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you're contributing on) |
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- How do you do things on your system (shutting down machine every day or |
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suspending it with 1-2 months+ uptime, using only apps you need or leaving |
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plenty of them running in the background, cleaning out tabs in your browser |
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or leaving them always opened in case you need them) |
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- You're using hibernation (if so, you definitely need swap large enough to |
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contain the whole contents of your ram) |
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- Your expectations of the need in swap in the next couple of years (and |
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you really SHOULD expect this. Personally I considered recently that 4 GB |
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is enough for all my needs and now I don't know how to even browse the |
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modern internet with it). You can have a swap in this case for the future. |
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Or if your system will live for couple of years without reinstallation |
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you'll consider that you need swap, so you'll repartition your drive, maybe |
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it'll get full of data to this time and you need to clean it up first, |
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maybe you'll need to backup your data before repartitioning, and so on... |
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It might take a long time in the future. |
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The first time I heard the "oh, you don't really need swap now, it's plenty |
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of ram in modern machines" was mid-2000s. Back then I had a 512MB RAM |
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machine (you'll not get modern fancy browser on it!). |
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And then every 2-3 years I hear that. But I still end up creating a swap |
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partition on every new machine I have. |
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On Fri, May 1, 2020, 23:50 Raphael MD <raphaxx@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Hello! |
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> Could I turn my Linux swap off. |
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> I have 32 GB of RAM memory, I suppose my system don’t need swap, because |
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> I’vea lot of RAM, is this true? |
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> Thanks |
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> -- |
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> M.S. Raphael Mejias Dias |
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> Nuclear Engineer | Reactors |
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