So, in my limited experience with swapping, here's my conclusions: 1 - one big (that is to say, at least your ram size, and possibly 2x your ram size) swap PARTITION is needed if you want to hibernate or suspend, and I think it has to be the first one in your fstab (but I'm not sure on that)
2 - swap files work fine, but can't be used for suspend/hibernate. 3 - suspend/hibernate doesn't work with multiple partitions if (the first one I think) isn't big enough to hold everything, even if the total swap space is plenty big. 4 - not having swap seems to make some things not work too well, even when you're not overflowing in to swap. This one I don't have proof for, but it just felt like a no-swap system ran in to walls sooner. -----Original Message----- From: PLUG-discuss [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Matt Graham Sent: Friday, September 21, 2018 9:35 AM To: Main PLUG discussion list Subject: Re: To lvm or not to lvm .... You might even be able to get away without swap if you don't want to do suspend-to-disk. --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
