Re: Bullseye default swap partition size?

From	Tixy <tixy@yxit.co.uk>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Bullseye default swap partition size?
Date	2022-01-09 11:20 +0100
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On Sat, 2022-01-08 at 14:24 -0600, David Wright wrote:
[...]
> the alternative is running out of memory, and the OOM killer.
> Obviously I don't know what you run that clogs the system. Most of my
> machines have much less RAM than the two mentioned, though they get
> less memory-intensive use nowadays. Maybe the difference is that
> I don't install any DEs here.

I've always used a DE and no swap, at the moment it's using 850MiB of
RAM running an email program and Firefox with one page open. Opening 10
tabs in Firefox and a music player to get a realistic higher limit of
memory usage and it jumps to 1.5GiB. That still leaves several GiB for
disk caches.

-- 
Tixy

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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
          Re: Bullseye default swap partition size? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2022-01-09 18:30 +0100
  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
      Re: Bullseye default swap partition size? Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2022-01-15 20:10 +0100
  Re: Bullseye default swap partition size? Marco Möller <talby@debianlists.mobilxpress.net> - 2022-01-09 22:30 +0100
    Re: Bullseye default swap partition size? Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2022-01-10 00:30 +0100
      Re: Bullseye default swap partition size? Peter Ehlert <pb21a@sdi-baja.com> - 2022-01-10 00:40 +0100

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