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   /home/leandroramos (leandroramos@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 16-Mar-2025 22:02:38 JST /home/leandroramos

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   • Jeff MacKinnon

   @Jeff swap is not an emergency slow memory to be used in case of full RAM. It does not have to be a partition, could be a file or a small piece of RAM itself (zram), so you don't have to spend a partition for it.

   https://chrisdown.name/2018/01/02/in-defence-of-swap.html

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     Jeff MacKinnon (jeff@bluenoser.me)'s status on Sunday, 16-Mar-2025 22:02:42 JST Jeff MacKinnon

     I have a question for the experienced linux people on here. How important is the swap partition in 2025 if my machine has over 30G of RAM and I have plans to upgrade the RAM in the future.

     I've already deleted it to expand my home partition, and haven't noticed any performance issues, yet. But is there something I'm missing?

     #linux #linuxlaptop