Re:In defence of swap: common misconceptions
by bb88 on Monday June 08, 2020 @11:20PM
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What's your workload like, do you run a lot of heavy servers for development? Or do you mostly do browsing?
A growing/shrinking swap file doesn't really add anything, especially if you're thinking a 1:1 relationship with memory and swap. To me it seems like 16GB of HD space isn't that big a deal.
You can also play around with swap performance if you want temporarily.
Yes, it's going to be slower since you're using a file in a filesystem rather than using a dedicated partition, but it would give you a way to test it out. Some workloads will do better since the unused pages will get sent to disk.
A growing/shrinking swap file doesn't really add anything, especially if you're thinking a 1:1 relationship with memory and swap. To me it seems like 16GB of HD space isn't that big a deal.
You can also play around with swap performance if you want temporarily.
https://linuxize.com/post/create-a-linux-swap-file/
Yes, it's going to be slower since you're using a file in a filesystem rather than using a dedicated partition, but it would give you a way to test it out. Some workloads will do better since the unused pages will get sent to disk.