We might see a performance boost soon in swap - https://youtu.be/RjeSdZn7ap4
3 months ago | 5
No swap. Especially on SSD-only machines. Swap might have relevance with some use cases, but none of mine so far (16 GB laptop, 64GB desktop).
3 months ago (edited) | 0
I use swap on my workstation, but I also use resource management to ensure the app I'm using doesn't force others out. Other people I would tell just don't use swap, as it can be faster to restart apps than wait for them to swap in. On servers, there's usually a certain amount of startup overhead that can be swapped out, so a small amount of swap to hold that is a usually minor optimization. Or, a lightly loaded server that is cost constrained (Linode Nanode) and does some non-interactive processing may benefit from swap.
3 months ago | 0
I have a 42GB swap partition. Even with 32 GB of RAM, it's sometimes used by the OS (sometimes even when not all of my system RAM is close to being used up, depends on the programs). I haven't seen it use more than 2-3 GB during heavy usage for me, but glad to have it! Everyone's use case is different.
3 months ago | 1
I occasionally use swap: with nvram storage, swap is not a good idea, but sometimes 32GB RAM isn't enough, so I have a systemd mount unit that activates a swap file when memory pressure is high.
3 months ago | 0
These days I a more likely to put a swap partition on a lightning fast SSD to allow the computer to juggle HUGE AI models.
3 months ago | 0
I stopped using swap in maybe 2008 or so when 4gb ram became normal and hard drives were mechanical, and never looked back.
3 months ago | 0
There are times you want swap for badly behaved programs or memory hog programs. Having 64gb of ram is sometimes still not enough.
3 months ago | 4
I use both a swap partition as well zram swap because I have a very underpowered system with only 4 GB RAM.
3 months ago | 0
I didn't have swap for years. Figured 32G of RAM was good enough. Though at some point I did configure zswap (or maybe it was zram? Whichever one is supposed to be better). A few months ago I added enough swap to enable hibernate. Did I ever actually go configure hibernation? No.
3 months ago | 0
OMG. I use Intel Optane Memory as SWAP so I am really excited to that!
3 months ago | 0
Im a desktop user. I use linux for the fun of it, if I code I do it for fun. I use my pc mainly for college and sometimes gaming. I think I've never used swap
3 months ago | 0
My machine has 16 GB RAM and I don't use swap. If any app takes too much RAM, I simply stop using it.
3 months ago | 2
I'm mostly in control, but compiling webkit-gtk and qtwebengine are the killers, have to breath in and hope for the best.
3 months ago
| 1
I've made a stupid purchase of 32gb of average speed memory instead of buying 16gb of faster memory. I guess benefits would not be too big but I have never managed to go over 16... At least I do not need swap...
3 months ago (edited) | 0
SavvyNik
Do you use swap space on your Linux System?
Here's s a performance boost coming - https://youtu.be/RjeSdZn7ap4
3 months ago | [YT] | 74