2026-09-12 15:42 UTC
@ryanc@infosec.exchange well, technically the load will end up on disk anyway, be it swap, or dropped filesystem caches requiring read/write operations
but yeah, a partition is definitely not the best way to do it, and if there's no budget to have quadruple amount of memory for stable performance, zram is a no-brainer to me
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@raymaccarthy@mastodon.ie 2026-09-12 17:18
@mo@mastodon.ml @ryanc@infosec.exchange Mint used to do a partition by default for swap. Before that I had Debian, Ubuntu, Redhat. All has swap partitions. But currently the 512G SSD/NVMe has no swap partition. There is a file called "swapfile" on the root of only 2.1 G. RAM is 16 G. A 6T 3.5" SATA HDD is mounted in a directory in my own home.