[gentoo-user] Re: 32GB RAM and Swap

2020-05-01 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 02/05/2020 05:06, tu...@posteo.de wrote: as far as I know, the hibernation mechanism of the kernel uses swap as storage place for an RAM image. If you plan to use hibernation, I think you need swap space in the size of your RAM. For this case you can set vm.swappiness=0 and still have a

[gentoo-user] Re: 32GB RAM and Swap

2020-05-01 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 01/05/2020 22:50, Raphael MD wrote: Could I turn my Linux swap off. I have 32 GB of RAM memory, I suppose my system don’t need swap, because I’vea lot of RAM, is this true? I've been on 16GB RAM for about 10 years. I've been using a 4GB swap partition for about 8 years. Two years ago, I