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Linux 6.11 To Offer More Fine-Tuned Control Over Swappiness (www.phoronix.com)
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[–] NateNate60@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago (4 children)

For normal users with a sufficient amount of RAM, is there any real reason to even have a swap file or swap partition? Or why shouldn't they have one and set the swappiness to zero?

[–] vividspecter@lemm.ee 9 points 4 months ago

Depends on how you define "sufficient". Having some amount of swap can be helpful for efficient use of RAM, but I personally prefer to use zram for those cases.

A swap partition can also be useful if you use hibernation.

[–] BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Hibernation needs a swap partition that's at least the same size as the memory.

Nvm: vivid.. already mentioned hibernation.