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Re: Bullseye default swap partition size?

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On January 9, 2022 10:02:21 AM Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de> wrote:

> Am Sonntag, 9. Januar 2022, 18:45:22 CET schrieb Tixy:
> However, I believe, hibernating will use the swap partition, so I think, it
> might be a good idea, to create a swap partition twice as big as the memory,
> if you want to use it.

Double the 64 GB Ram?
I'm a pig, but I seldom see more than 6 GB in use, my swaps are usually 
about 8.


But we run 24/7 and never hibernate... Old habits are hard to break

>
> Of course you can use any other partition for hibernating, but for myself I
> used an encrypted swap partition for hibernation in earlier times.
>
> A bigger swap partition will not harm your system, as modern harddrives are
> much, much bigger than memory (normally!), most systems are using 16GB or
> 32GB, not many 64GB (and some 128GB and more) as RAM, but compared to 1TB ,
> 16GB or even 32GB is rather small.
>
> Maybe some people like me (I personally am using old stuff with debian) are
> just using 250GB harddrives, but we are only some dinosaurs to be left.
>
> Normally are 500GB ore higher capacities, so a swap drive does not harm.
>
> Just my opinion....
>
> Best
>
> Hans
>
>> On Sun, 2022-01-09 at 18:19 +0200, Georgi Naplatanov wrote:
>>> On 1/8/22 19:38, Tixy wrote:
>>>> On Sat, 2022-01-08 at 19:18 +0200, Georgi Naplatanov wrote:
>>>> [1] If I remember correct, you couldn't actually disable swap, just set
>>>> it's size to the minimum of 4MB.
>>>
>>> it's possible not to use swap. Debian installer (in expert mode) shows a
>>> warning if the user doesn't create swap partition.
>>
>> Thanks, that's what I do. (My comment about 4MB minimum was with regard
>> to Windows 2000 ;-)

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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
      Re: Bullseye default swap partition size? Georgi Naplatanov <gosho@oles.biz> - 2022-01-09 17:30 +0100
        Re: Bullseye default swap partition size? Tixy <tixy@yxit.co.uk> - 2022-01-09 18:50 +0100
          Re: Bullseye default swap partition size? Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de> - 2022-01-09 19:10 +0100
            Re: Bullseye default swap partition size? Peter Ehlert <pb21a@sdi-baja.com> - 2022-01-09 21:10 +0100
            Re: Bullseye default swap partition size? Charlie <taoquester@gmail.com> - 2022-01-09 22:40 +0100
    Re: Bullseye default swap partition size? Cindy Sue Causey <butterflybytes@gmail.com> - 2022-01-08 20:30 +0100
      Re: Bullseye default swap partition size? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2022-01-08 21:30 +0100
        Re: Bullseye default swap partition size? Tixy <tixy@yxit.co.uk> - 2022-01-09 11:20 +0100
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  Re: Bullseye default swap partition size? "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2022-01-09 17:30 +0100
    Re: Bullseye default swap partition size? conover@rahul.net (John Conover) - 2022-01-09 18:00 +0100
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