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