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Linux users, how much swap do you use? (piefed.zip)

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[–] Blaze@piefed.zip 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

On my daily driver I have a swap partition of roughly half the amount of RAM I have

That's probably what I should do. I have 16GB of RAM, 2GB of swap, the swap is constantly at full use.

Or maybe I should just add 16 GB of RAM 😅

[–] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 hours ago

I have 32GB of RAM which practically never runs out. I'm using a 16GB swap partition, but could've gotten away with much less. I think on the next install I'll just go with the same approach as I have at work servers: No swap partitions, swapon some files on the fly instead if I really need to.