Hello, Am Freitag, 19. September 2014 schrieb Basil Chupin:
With RAM being so cheap now-a-says and with systems using 4GB as the minimum (most I would think now use 16GB or more), /swap partition has become no more than a novel requirement. So, to see the partitioner in YaST in oS 13.2 still wanting to create a /swap at the beginning of the HDD is rather puzzling.
I agree on the "RAM is cheap" part, and my servers don't have a swap partition anymore. If a process eats up all memory, I prefer to let the OOM killer do its job instead of first "swapping to death" and then let the OOM killer do its job ;-) Swapping to death means the server is unresponsable for quite some time and typically needs to get "fixed" by a reboot. However, there is one usecase left that needs a swap partition: suspend to disk. And that's probably the reason why YaST still suggests to create a swap partition. (I'd even say suspend to disk is _the only reason_ to have a swap partition ;-) Regards, Christian Boltz -- Manchmal stellt man halt Fragen, auf die keiner eine Antwort hat. (Habe ich hier auch schon hingekriegt). [Helga Fischer in opensuse-de] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org