Re:Is there ever a good reason to disable swap?
by ASalazarMX on Monday June 17, 2024 @04:11PM
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> One final observation: the metric "swap should be twice the size of RAM" isn't so helpful nowadays
Remembered when I thought "if double is recommended, four times should be even better!". It was not.
Nowadays I don't use swap because I rarely run out of RAM, it sits there eating a few precious GB of SSD, largely unused. The rare cases when I run out of RAM have been buggy Steam games on Proton. In 2024, it has been only "The Invincible", and that game has reports of running out of memory on Windows too.
Remembered when I thought "if double is recommended, four times should be even better!". It was not.
Nowadays I don't use swap because I rarely run out of RAM, it sits there eating a few precious GB of SSD, largely unused. The rare cases when I run out of RAM have been buggy Steam games on Proton. In 2024, it has been only "The Invincible", and that game has reports of running out of memory on Windows too.