Remember when they said “swap should be 2 times the amount of RAM”.

Why would I waste 128 GiB of storage for nothing?

I know right now you're stuck exclusively using swap, but If you work hard and apply yourself, you may one day be able to afford one whole gigabyte of ram without going more than five figures into debt.

pagefile.sys has entered the chat.

Please, for the love of who ever you hold in high esteem, use swap. See: https://chrisdown.name/... Now I don't really like the whole "Heres an article from some rando to prove my point" thing, but anecdotally, the article does line up with my experience (with 32 gigs of system memory). Namely, when I went without swap I experienced frequent system lock-ups, when I added swap on zram, lock ups still happened but less frequently, and when I eventually changed swap on zram to disk swap on the recommendation of this article lock ups never happened again.

I’ll do whatever the fuck I want, thank you.

And if you need swap just do a swap file

Lol, I stopped swapping when I got enough RAM to never need swap

Sorry, my 8 GB study laptop freezes all the time on Librewolf and it has a Bay Trail chip. I gotta have it.

I miss Intel optane

My skyrim modpack need 60GB of Swap Space :(

Everytime I install a fresh OS I setup swap when I feel I'm having OOM issues or random freezes, it's just creating one 16GB file and enabling it as swap. Much easier than going to read now about zswap zram or whatever I'm "supposed" to be using.

Does it make a system more stable or less stable? What about under proxmox?

I usually make swap partitions on hdds tho never on ssds. I can happily spare ~10GB hdd space in this memory drought.

Great send up of Swap!

Swap is great though. And to point out again that there are ratings on quality SSDs for the lifetime writes. Pull up the data sheet and look for "DWPD", which is "Disk Writes Per Day". Typical numbers for good swap drives are 1 and 3. If DWPD is not listed, then plan for frequent drive failures if using heavy, heavy swap (like for ZFS swap drives (Yes, these are different from a OS swap partition)).

Anyway, I just wanted to point out the DWPD statistic.

Oh, you mean the hibernation space? ZZzzzzz...

You'll have to pry my swap partition out of my cold, dead hands.

Go the other way: create a RAM disk.

Meanwhile here I am partitioning 20Gb of SWAP because I want 0 chance of an OOM moment.

I often use FreeBSD on a system with 2 gigs of ram. I WISH swap was useful. OOM killer is so overzealous the thing just kills whatever before even touching swap.

What, you don't have your SWAP set to 1TB Google Drive share?

I have a laptop with 16GB of ram and discovered that if I connect an external display the available ram goes down to 12... but I'd hate to pay 32 GB as if they were 256 GB, I've resigned to keeping 1 (one) instance of intellij opened at a time