From: BitTwister@mouse-potato.com   
      
   On Sun, 17 Jul 2022 18:38:00 +0100, Albert Arkwright wrote:   
   > Do you see any reason to create a swap file on a system with 24GB ram   
   > and 200 GB disk space?   
      
   Disk space is not decision maker unless there is not room for swap partition.   
      
   >   
   > I don't have a swap file but wondered if there will be some improvement   
   > if 1GB is allocated to the swap file.   
      
      
   If you never need swap then there is no need for swap. Since you have   
   no swap it is kinda hard to tell if it is needed. Requirement is application   
   dependent.   
      
   On the other hand If you want to hibernate/sleep you need swap to be   
   size of ram + 1 meg.   
      
   Take my setup as an example. My web browsing node is used to read mail   
   with claws-mail, firefox brwowsing and slrn for Usenet. And yet we see   
   $ free -h   
                  total        used        free      shared  buff/cache     
   available   
   Mem:           7.8Gi       772Mi       721Mi        14Mi       6.3Gi         
   6.7Gi   
   Swap:          8.0Gi        45Mi       8.0Gi   
      
   On my MythTv node which is only doing Over the Air tv recording/   
   ranscribing/showings we see   
   # free -h   
                  total        used        free      shared  buff/cache     
   available   
   Mem:           5.8Gi       1.3Gi       108Mi       1.0Mi       4.4Gi         
   4.2Gi   
   Swap:          9.3Gi       794Mi       8.5Gi   
      
   My guess is the file integrity / host intrusion detection Environment system   
   (aide)   
   is using a whole bunch of ram checking the system for any changes when it runs   
   daily.   
      
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