[Trisquel-users] Re : SSD vs. HDD in Librebooted T400

[lcerf]

It is good to have swap: if a bug makes a program leak memory, the kernel  
will not kill a random process (well, there is a heuristic) once the RAM is  
full.  Instead, the computer will become unbearably slow (especially if the  
swap is on HDD) and the user has the time to identify and kill the faulty  
program.  Also, hibernating needs almost as much swap as the RAM that in use.  
 That is why you will often read to set as much swap as RAM.  I guess having  
the swap SSD makes hibernating faster.