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|    Bobbie Sellers to Marco Moock    |
|    Re: Swap file    |
|    17 Jul 22 12:43:14    |
      From: bliss@mouse-potato.com              On 7/17/22 12:12, Marco Moock wrote:       > Am Sonntag, 17. Juli 2022, um 18:38:00 Uhr schrieb Albert Arkwright:       >       >> Do you see any reason to create a swap file on a system with 24GB ram       >> and 200 GB disk space?       >       > In case the RAM is full, no application needs to be stopped.       > But I also run Linux without swap on many machines with enough RAM -       > no problems yet because I never used the entire RAM.       >              So it depends on how hard you are going to be using the machine. If       your programs and data are large enough to use up the RAM memory then       you might want to create a similar sized swap so that you don't lose       anything if some one sends you something bulky.               Previous owner of very bulky files in the days when 32 Megabytes       was a large memory.               bliss - it is all relative and the human race is all relatives.              --       bliss dash SF 4 ever at dslextreme dot com              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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