>>>>> Camaleón <noela...@gmail.com> writes: […]
> So, who is going to say that a "/swap" partition is going to be > needed with 8 GiB of RAM? I wouldn't, I just thought kernel makes > use of all of the available resources are allocates them to get the > best performance. Meaning: if you have available resources (i.e., > unused swap) they will be used. When preparing some files to be written to a DVD+R, I'd usually put them to /tmp/. The total volume of the files in such a case may easily exceed the amount of the physical RAM I have on the host, so the swap gets used. IOW, I consider swap to be not only the disk space that gets used in the case there's insufficient physical RAM, but also the space that I can easily use for temporary files. Therefore, it's my preference, and everlasting recommendation, to have about 3% of the disk space allocated for swap. -- FSF associate member #7257 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/86hb5k56mw....@gray.siamics.net