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   Mike Easter to Albert Arkwright   
   Re: Swap file   
   17 Jul 22 10:55:44   
   
   From: MikeE@ster.invalid   
      
   Albert Arkwright wrote:   
   > Do you see any reason to create a swap file on a system with 24GB ram   
   > and 200 GB disk space?   
   >   
   > I don't have a swap file but wondered if there will be some improvement   
   > if 1GB is allocated to the swap file.   
      
   I 'scanned' a couple of articles; I didn't read them carefully because   
   there was too much discussion.   
      
   The 'unified' answer is YES, you should have some swap, even if you have   
   plenty of ram.   
      
   Some of those answers recommended the swap be zram instead of hdd.   
      
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   Mike Easter   
      
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