Jose Otero posted on Mon, 28 Mar 2016 22:30:56 +0200 as excerpted:
> Duncan, you are right. I have 8 GB of RAM, and the most memory intensive
> thing I'll be doing is a VM for Windows. Now I double boot, but rarely
> go into Win, only to play some game occasionally. So, I think I'll be
> better of
On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 6:35 AM, Austin S. Hemmelgarn
wrote:
> The other caveat that nobody seems to mention outside of specific cases is
> that using suspend to disks exposes you to direct attack by anyone with the
> ability to either physically access the system, or boot an alternative OS on
>
Austin S. Hemmelgarn posted on Mon, 28 Mar 2016 08:35:59 -0400 as
excerpted:
> The other caveat that nobody seems to mention outside of specific cases
> is that using suspend to disks exposes you to direct attack by anyone
> with the ability to either physically access the system, or boot an
> alt
Thanks a lot Duncan, Chris Murphy, James Johnston, and Austin.
Thanks for the clear answer and the extra information to chew on.
Duncan, you are right. I have 8 GB of RAM, and the most memory intensive
thing I'll be doing is a VM for Windows. Now I double boot, but rarely
go into Win, only to pla
On 2016-03-27 20:56, Duncan wrote:
But there's another option you didn't mention, that may be useful,
depending on your exact need and usage of that swap:
Split your swap space in half, say (roughly, you can make one slightly
larger than the other to allow for the EFI on one device) 8 GiB on ea
James Johnston posted on Mon, 28 Mar 2016 05:26:56 + as excerpted:
> For me, I use swap on an SSD, which is orders of magnitude faster than
> HDD.
> Swap can still be useful on an SSD and can really close the gap between
> RAM speeds and swap speeds. (The original poster would do well to use
Sorry to interject here, but I think it's a bit overreaching to suggest
that swap isn't generally useful any more as a general-purpose member of
the memory hierarchy
> Given that swap on spinning rust is slower than real
> RAM by several orders of magnitude, it'll still be far slower than real
On Sun, Mar 27, 2016 at 4:35 AM, Jose Otero wrote:
> Hello,
>
> --
> I apologize beforehand if I'm asking a too basic question for the
> mailing list, or if it has been already answered at nauseam.
> --
>
> I have two hdd (Wes
Jose Otero posted on Sun, 27 Mar 2016 12:35:43 +0200 as excerpted:
> Hello,
>
> --
> I apologize beforehand if I'm asking a too basic question for the
> mailing list, or if it has been already answered at nauseam.
> --
Actua
