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Am 21.07.2013 17:39, schrieb luis jure: |
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> on 2013-07-21 at 15:42 Peter Wilmott wrote: |
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>> TBH, unless you are really stressing your RAM usage (Lots of VMs or Java |
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>> applications, stuff like that) I'd go without swap. |
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> it's true that most of the time 12BG is more than enough for me and i |
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> don't use swap space on disk. i wouldn't go for a swapless system, though, |
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> specially since i'm going to put things on tmpfs. |
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> a few GB (i'm thinking about 8) of swap space on disk won't hurt, and i'd |
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> feel safer. that's the idea of reducing swappiness to 1 or 0, anyway. |
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Also think about using zswap or frontswap. Both work well despite still |
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being in staging in current kernels. Zswap will be stabilized in kernel |
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3.11, I think. |
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Regards, |
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Florian Philipp |