On 06/08/2017 04:36 AM, Peter Robinson wrote:
It can be used for other things, sometimes the kernel will page out to swap to assist in getting contiguous sections of free memory, it's also used for suspend to disk if it's enabled which is useful on laptops when on very low battery.
This ideology needs to die. I'm sorry. Do you get suspend on your cell phone? Tablet? Is everyone crying for it on those devices?
It gets ridiculous to expect 32GB of swap on a 32GB PC. Within the next decade we'll be seeing triple digit ram sizes as standard and matching swap sizes will turn from ridiculous to ludicrous.
I propose: if [ $RAM > 8GB ]; then rm -rf swap; fi (Apologies for the double-send, Peter, my e-mail client goofed on the To:) _______________________________________________ desktop mailing list -- desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to desktop-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
