On Sat, 2022-01-08 at 19:18 +0200, Georgi Naplatanov wrote: > On 1/8/22 18:54, John Conover wrote: > > > > I just installed Bullseye, using default "use entire disk" as the HD > > configuration from the Graphical Install option on a Live USB SD. > > > > The swap partition size installed on the HD is 1 GB. > > > > Buster, etc., used to be about the size of memory, (8 GB in my case,) > > for the swap partition size. > > > > Is there a reason for such small default swap partition size on a 1 TB > > HD in Bullseye that I don't know about? > > > > Hi John, > > nowadays computers have a lot of RAM and some people (including me)
I stopped using swap when Windows 2000 came out [1] and I had a machine with enough RAM for the programs I used, swap just seemed to slow things down. At home, I fully migrated to Linux when Debian Lenny was in testing (2008) and never bothered configuring swap, I couldn't see the point. The only reason I can see to do so is if it's required for the system to do suspend to disk (not anything I've used). [1] If I remember correct, you couldn't actually disable swap, just set it's size to the minimum of 4MB. -- Tixy