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. Swap is used ONLY when there isn't enough memory. 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 I got a lot of those with Firefox and Thunderbird plugins. I suspect I still do If I really try to have too many open tabs in Firefox. b) too many open ... whatever. Usually tabs in Firefox but it also applies to open files, file saves and general thrashing in LibreOffice if I have other programs open, Gimp if ...; darktable if ...; KMyMoney if ... That may be a kernel problem. Shutting down ... Firefox ... solves the issue. Very occasionally the whole machine is unrecoverable, but I think that too is a kernel issue. I don't know how to track this kind of problem for bug reporting. But then I only have 4G on this Mobo. Technically, the manual says that I can't go above 8G, but the 4x4G are rather expensive. I do know someone who does run that on this Mobo. Of course I could upgrade a Mobo; after all DDR3 is a lot cheaper than the DDR2 that this Mobo uses. Last time I looked it was a marginal decision. Maybe I'm in line for a Christ present. -- A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org