On 01/05/20 21:29, Dale wrote: > It gets really slow to respond when it uses swap but it beats crashing. > Just set swapiness to a low number. I think mine is set to 10. > > Given the cheapness of hard drives, I'm not sure why having several > gigabytes of swap space is of much concern. I have the same amount of > ram as you and I have a 12GB swap space. I use LVM so I can grow it if > needed or just add another swap space. I might add, I've seen times > where it gets used.
That first paragraph is why too much swap space is bad - if an app goes rogue it can kill system response and make regaining control of the system a nightmare. Accidentally or on purpose, if a system runs out of ram and starts thrashing, you're in big trouble if it's an app eating memory like no tomorrow. Cheers, Wol
