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From: Florian Philipp <lists@×××××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] more on SSD: swap
Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2013 18:26:14
Message-Id: 51EC2738.80609@binarywings.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] more on SSD: swap by luis jure
1 Am 21.07.2013 17:39, schrieb luis jure:
2 > on 2013-07-21 at 15:42 Peter Wilmott wrote:
3 >
4 >> TBH, unless you are really stressing your RAM usage (Lots of VMs or Java
5 >> applications, stuff like that) I'd go without swap.
6 >
7 > it's true that most of the time 12BG is more than enough for me and i
8 > don't use swap space on disk. i wouldn't go for a swapless system, though,
9 > specially since i'm going to put things on tmpfs.
10 >
11 > a few GB (i'm thinking about 8) of swap space on disk won't hurt, and i'd
12 > feel safer. that's the idea of reducing swappiness to 1 or 0, anyway.
13 >
14
15 Also think about using zswap or frontswap. Both work well despite still
16 being in staging in current kernels. Zswap will be stabilized in kernel
17 3.11, I think.
18
19 Regards,
20 Florian Philipp

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