On 2014-06-20 21:09 (GMT-0400) James Knott composed:
On 2014-06-21 01:10 (GMT+0200) Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2014-06-20 16:12 (GMT-0400) Felix Miata wrote:
I doubt for _most_ users with 4GB or more of RAM that having any swap partition at all makes much sense. I have several systems with a far smaller swap partition than installed RAM size.
I have 8 GiB RAM. The other day, I was using about 3 GiB of swap.
I also have 8G and see swap use.
"makes much sense" as I wrote was about *need*. I doubt very many regular helpers here are representative of "_most_ users". Probably most of us here are multi-taskers with more than a few apps open most of the time, and probably most also have their puters on more than off if not virtually always on. My guess is that many if not most of those in this thread with swap in use and more than 4G RAM are mostly seeing the kernel preferring disk caching to keeping in RAM apps open but not actually used since a day or more ago. I'm running 32 bit on 4G RAM with swap disabled, 5 Geckos cumulatively with well over 200 open tabs (conservative estimate; far too many to count, maybe closer to 400) plus email plus Chatzilla, plus several other apps continually open (KSIRC, Konq, Kpdf, 10 Konsole tabs, Gwenview, KSnapshot, file managers in both X and tty2). Currently here there is 15% RAM free and 230 MB in disk buffers and cache. Uptime since last extended power outage is 22 days. In contrast, I think of "_most_ users" as people who do little multi-tasking, people who turn off their puters when not in active use, and people who do little with their puters other than bill paying, shopping, Facebook/Christian Mingles/Twitter/etc, Skype, email & Youtube, mostly only one or two things open at a time. -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org