On 2021-12-09 15:46, Dan Ritter wrote:
hdv@gmail wrote:
On 2021-12-08 15:27, Jorge P. de Morais Neto wrote:
Hi everyone! I have a Dell Inspiron 5570 laptop with 1TB HDD and 16 GiB
RAM (it supports 32 GiB). I am about to buy an M.2 NVMe 250GB SSD---a
Regarding the swap space: I wouldn't make it so big. That really isn't
necessary. I have a 64GB RAM system here, on which I have 2GB of swap. I
doubt I have ever seen conky show me more than 35% use. And I am quite a
heavy user of system resources (much 3D CAD editing, photo editing, video
editing and rendering, and often multiple VM's in use).
My laptop has 32GB of RAM and 2 GB of swap and on that system I haven't seen
much swapping either.
Swap is where a laptop stores RAM during suspend-to-disk, the long
term hibernation suspension. Without at least as much swap as
RAM, you are limited to suspend-to-RAM.
In a more perfect world, the space for suspension would not
otherwise be treated as swap space.
-dsr-
It certainly was the reason why I always had swap at least as big as RAM
in the past on my laptops. However, I have not had any trouble
suspending or hibernating my laptops in the years since I reduced swap
to 2GB. That is just my experience, and it may not be the same for
others. But it might help the thread starter to know this is a feasible
option (depending on their use case).
P.S. I am on the list. It is sufficient to just reply to the list for me
to receive your message.
Grx HdV
