Well, there are actually multiple swaps, roughly one per VM. Not having swap on Linux is rather a way to troubles despite having enough RAM, especially with memory balancing in Qubes, but you can make it more privacy-respecting.
The dom0 swap is configurable. I advise having it on a device encrypted by a random key instead of turning it off completely. The swaps in default AppVMs are hardcoded in prepare-volatile-img.sh. They are always 1GiB. You can tune it, but when you update Qubes, it can get replaced. I have a tuning that moved volatile.img to another partition. The partition is encrypted by a key that is held in memory only, so the whole partition is protected in a similar way as dom0 swap. Regards, Vít Šesták 'v6ak' On Tuesday, September 26, 2017 at 9:43:32 AM UTC+2, tai...@gmx.com wrote: > > It increases SSD wear and decreases privacy by writing temporary data to > disk (no bueno!), I believe an option should be provided in the > installer for this. > > Developers thoughts? Would you accept a patch for this? > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to qubes-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to qubes-devel@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-devel/60c8fd38-d572-4321-87ea-ec38050b8714%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
