-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2014-09-19 22:08, Christian Boltz wrote:
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.
Yes, that would be true (about yast) if it suggested a swap partition bigger than RAM, and that is not always the case. It often is smaller and insufficient. YaST often guesses wrong about the machine being a laptop or not.
(I'd even say suspend to disk is _the only reason_ to have a swap partition ;-)
Nope... my system has 8 GiB of ram, and it does use swap (4 GiB at this moment). And I say that it is faster with swap enabled than without it (RAM being the same). Because now I have 3.6 GiB of ram free, and 1.4 in cache. Without swap, I'd probably have no free ram, no cache or very small - making the machine slower than now. As it is, I just have to pay a little penalty as delay when switching from one big desktop application to another. Buy more ram, you say? Nay, the board is maxed. - -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlQc0tIACgkQtTMYHG2NR9XKTACeLKjY//QEIdF65rafocaX335Q +McAnijnVbyTNO9WulgkX17NyNHg20ZL =qK9q -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org