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|    Anton Ertl to Albert Arkwright    |
|    Re: Swap file    |
|    18 Jul 22 10:49:02    |
   
   From: anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at   
      
   Albert Arkwright writes:   
   >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.   
      
   If performance is ok as-is, there is little reason to add a swap file.   
   In general swapping to HDDs is so slow that I don't recommend it.   
   With SSDs it may be better.   
      
   - anton   
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