| ▲ | SoftTalker 3 days ago | |
Swap isn’t unlimited, it just delays the inevitable and makes everything slow while doing it. A 4GB swap partition isn’t going to save you if you run your 32GB computer out of memory. | ||
| ▲ | justsomehnguy 3 days ago | parent | next [-] | |
Who the hell would set 4Gb swap for a 32Gb RAM machine in 2025? A guy with a decade old 64Gb SSD as the only drive in the system? > and makes everything slow while doing it It was so when the OS was on a HDD. Nowadays it's a PCIe device with 1 million IOPS. And five years ago fans of some fruit company run around singing praises on how good their brand new laptops worked with a mere 8Gb of RAM. | ||
| ▲ | baq 3 days ago | parent | prev [-] | |
It does help. It gives time for the kernel in this situation and also helps in general by allowing to defragment memory. You want to keep a small amount of swap space at all times. | ||