On Oct 25 21:21:52, [email protected] wrote:
> On Oct 24 12:45:33, [email protected] wrote:
> > On Oct 24 11:26:40, [email protected] wrote:
> > > > > Does the swap partition sd0b actually exist,
> > > > > or are you by any chance running these machines swapless?
> > > >
> > > > Indeed, I am running without swap.
> > >
> > > Ah yes AFAIK that is not really supported.
> >
> > Is that specific to arm*? Or some other platforms?
> >
> > I have been using this Thinkpad T400 (amd64, 8GB ram) for years
> > without having a swap partition, running chrome and everything.
>
> Ou of curiosity, I added 8GB of swap to this amd64 machine
> with 8GB of RAM, and it started using it while there are
> gigabytes of free memory, making e.g. chrome quite sluggish.
I am still puzzled by this.
It seems that on arm64 (the RPI3 and RPI4 at least)
one wants to have a swap partition (however small),
even if the machine has eniugh RAM (like th 8GB on RPI4),
because otherwise processes are getting killed.
On amd64, OTOH, one wants to _not_ have a swap partition, because
the system starts to use it, even if there is plenty of RAM
(like the 8GB on the Thinkpad T400), slowing things down.
Jan
