Lucas Werkmeister
by the way, a Linux lesson that I’m only slowly learning: if you want to have a swap partition (rather than a swap file), for the love of god put it *at the end* of the disk, *after* the file systems
resizing file systems isn’t fun already, but it’s way easier than moving them, so if you change your mind about your file system / swap size, it’s much easier if you don’t have to move the beginning of the file system partition(s)
Mans R
@LucasWerkmeister What about swap (and filesystems) on lvm/devicemapper?
Mans R
@LucasWerkmeister Surely swap really does become pointless if you have enough RAM, though enough is perhaps more than one might intuitively expect.
Lucas Werkmeister
and if you think swap is pointless on modern systems, I recommend reading https://chrisdown.name/2018/01/02/in-defence-of-swap.html, it’s really good (and starts with a tl;dr :P)
Lucas Werkmeister
@mansr I think the only case where swap is really pointless is if you just have too much RAM.
Say Firefox allocates a couple hundred megs of memory for JS sources and metadata about JIT compilation (deoptimization info etc.). Unless the website behaves very unexpectedly, that memory is never going to get accessed again.
What would you rather have in RAM – that, or libxul.so?
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