-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday, 2017-11-26 at 20:48 -0500, Anton Aylward wrote:
On 26/11/17 05:18 PM, Mikhail Ramendik wrote:
As this is for swap only, I can get a cheap SSD (if it breaks I just lose one session). I can get a 32Gb SSD for about 25 Euro, while an extra 8GB of RAM would apparently set me back more like 50 Euro. But will this work?
In those circumstances I'd go for more memory first. late model Linux doesn't have a hard boundary between buffer space and program space any more, so it figures out where best to use the memory according to circumstances.
I went the exact same route as he, and I have noticed a huge speed improvement after placing swap on an SSD. It works, proven fact :-) I have this instant 3.8G used swap. Telcontar:~ # free -h total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 7.8G 3.5G 4.3G 53M 107M 899M - -/+ buffers/cache: 2.5G 5.3G Swap: 23G 3.8G 20G
Swap is used ONLY when there isn't enough memory.
And there isn't.
I'll grant you that maybe you'll still end up with not enough memory, but when that happens to me I've always traced it to
a) a memory leak
No leaks. Just huge programs.
b) too many open ... whatever.
And I want all that open :-) - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. (from openSUSE 42.2 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEARECAAYFAlob+/QACgkQtTMYHG2NR9UHXQCgic/LZXj+7cewXJvthl70UZJB YM4An02Bx9nloa4R6aUDZAVpvlcf4tiU =wLTM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org