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Re: Bullseye default swap partition size?

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Andrew M.A. Cater writes:
> On Sat, Jan 08, 2022 at 08:54:43AM -0800, 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.
> > 
> 
> Changed with Bullesye as the default. Rarely, if ever,will a system with
> a significant amount of memory hit swap so 2x memory is probably overkill
> Hibernation on a laptop is  the only thing that might be affected, I think,
> and even then,m that's generally to a file rather than generic swap.
>

Thanks, Andy.

What I was concerned about is the caching pushing the machine into
memory overflow. Is the caching LRU gets replaced? What about mmap(2)
used by many encryption/signature programs for file access pushing the
the machine into memory overflow when cached, etc.?

    Thanks,

    John

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John Conover, conover@rahul.net, http://www.johncon.com/

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Bullseye default swap partition size? conover@rahul.net (John Conover) - 2022-01-08 18:00 +0100
  Re: Bullseye default swap partition size? Georgi Naplatanov <gosho@oles.biz> - 2022-01-08 18:20 +0100
    Re: Bullseye default swap partition size? Tixy <tixy@yxit.co.uk> - 2022-01-08 18:40 +0100
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  Re: Bullseye default swap partition size? "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2022-01-09 17:30 +0100
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