On 20/09/14 11:05, Carlos E. R. wrote:
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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.
Perhaps I should have expanded on my response. My response was directed at what Roman stated in his OP, namely- "The 20140909 ISO Yast partitioner has a default setting: "sda1 --> swap "sda2 --> / "sda3 --> /home "If I delete this setting in VirtualBox and change it to: "sda1 --> / "sda2 --> /swap "sda3 --> /home "I get an error:......" and in particular at "...Yast partitioner has a *default* setting:..." [my emphasis] as wells as at the error he gets when he tries to do what HE wants to do with swap partition and where HE wants it to go. There have been discussions in the HELP list where people have stated that they often do not have a swap partition of any size because their system has no need for /swap. Of course, some people do need /swap - like yourself it would appear - but I certainly don't need one. My response - badly put - was aimed at YaST *forcing* not only a /swap to be created but also *where* YaST wants to put it and not where "*I*" want to put it (if I want /swap at all that is). BC -- Using openSUSE 13.1, KDE 4.14.1 & kernel 3.16.3-1 on a system with- AMD FX 8-core 3.6/4.2GHz processor 16GB PC14900/1866MHz Quad Channel RAM Gigabyte AMD3+ m/board; Gigabyte nVidia GTX660 GPU -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org