the company will keep publishing security patches each month on a dedicated security-only branch for relevant OS releases just as it does today
Ok, so this is mostly going to affect new feature releases. It might not be a bad thing really, as it will be easier for downstream projects to keep up with a 6-month release cycle.
not after the cirrhosis sets in
A modern OS running with low RAM (e.g. an RPi with 2G) is going to fill the RAM pretty quickly just in normal operation, so a larger swap space will allow it to run more efficiently as it regularly moves things in and out of swap. You still want to have some overhead to allow for storing the live RAM for hibernation, which with a small amount of RAM is likely to be near 100%. Therefore, running with 3x RAM for swap space is recommended.
it only needs to be at least the size of RAM
Yes, technically it only needs to be the size of the RAM, but no matter how much RAM you have some of the swap space will be used at any given time for the swap file during system operarion. If you only have exactly as much swap space as RAM, there won't be enough available swap space to store the entire live RAM for hibernation.
The size of the swap file and the size of the live RAM image at any point is unpredictable, therefore 1.5x RAM is the lowest recommended value that is probably safe for hibernation, assuming the swap file is not being used heavily enough to be 50% of the RAM. If you can't provide at least that much disk space for swap, you should disable hibernation.
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This is the best simple guideline: https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_enterprise_linux/10/html/managing_storage_devices/getting-started-with-swap#recommended-system-swap-space
Basically, if you want your system to be able to hibernate then you need enough swap space to sustain both the active swap file and a full image of the live system RAM (hibernate = suspend-to-disk, and uses the swap space). The swap file could be as large as the RAM, so a safe value is 2x the RAM. If you don't want to dedicate that much disk space to swap, the safe option is to disable hibernation but note that suspend-to-disk is safer for system recovery in the event of power failure.
If you've ever had a Linux system go into hibernate and fail to awake, lack of swap space was probably the reason.
In Red Hat's chart where they recommend 1.5x RAM for 8-64 GiB, basically you're hoping that your system is never completely using all of the RAM. If you do cap out the RAM such that the swap file plus the in-use memory is greater than 1.5x RAM, and the system goes into hibernate, it will not recover because there isn't enough free swap space to store the in-use memory. You have to make a judgment call when you set up your system about how you're going to use it - whether you expect to be using 100% of the RAM at any point, whether you'll remember to close some running applications to free up memory every time you leave the system idle long enough to go into hibernate, whether other users will be using the system (if they're logged in then they are partially using the RAM and the swap), etc.
Deciding how much swap space you need is a risk management decision based on your tolerance for data loss, application stability, and whether or not you need hibernation.
78% of all statistics are made up on the spot.
Assuredly, we must all hang together, or assuredly, we shall all hang separately.
At the moment it's experimental, so no.
And just to be clear, this cannot be used to move information faster than the speed of light, ever.
In theory it might have application as a sort of tamper-evident seal for digital encryption.
You must think I'm a joke
I ain't gonna be part of your system
Man!
Pump that garbage in another man's veins!
In the November study, the researchers successfully “beamed” polarization between a photon pair, and they could do this because the particles were entangled.
Equating quantum (information) teleportation with physical teleportation of objects really just reveals that the author has no idea what they're talking about.
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