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From: luis jure <ljc@××××××××××××.uy>
To: gentoo-user <gentoo-user@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] more on SSD: swap
Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2013 15:39:20
Message-Id: 20130721123901.19d2d3c4@acme7.acmenet
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] more on SSD: swap by Peter Wilmott
1 on 2013-07-21 at 15:42 Peter Wilmott wrote:
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3 > TBH, unless you are really stressing your RAM usage (Lots of VMs or Java
4 > applications, stuff like that) I'd go without swap.
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6 it's true that most of the time 12BG is more than enough for me and i
7 don't use swap space on disk. i wouldn't go for a swapless system, though,
8 specially since i'm going to put things on tmpfs.
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10 a few GB (i'm thinking about 8) of swap space on disk won't hurt, and i'd
11 feel safer. that's the idea of reducing swappiness to 1 or 0, anyway.
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13 best,
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16 lj

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Re: [gentoo-user] more on SSD: swap Florian Philipp <lists@×××××××××××.net>