On 31/10/16 00:56, Pol Hallen wrote:
I bought a new notebook: i7 2.2Ghz, 8Gb ram and ssd 256Gb.
Consider that small disk, can I install debian without swap? Does swap
still useful?
I have not used swap since I switched to SSDs in 2009. This works only
if you are confident that you will never use all your RAM. Even with use
of RAM disks (tmpfs), I have never run out of RAM.
Avoiding swap on an SSD reduces wear.
Some memory hungry applications like GIMP use their own scheme for
storing tiles on disk to avoid excessive use of RAM.
How much RAM do you typically use?
Kind regards,
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Ben Caradoc-Davies <b...@transient.nz>
Director
Transient Software Limited <http://transient.nz/>
New Zealand
