On Oct 12, 2018, at 13:15, Gordan Bobic <gordan@redsleeve.org> wrote:

It depends on what you are running on that system. If you have 1GB of RAM and want to run a desktop environment web browser, that'll go pretty poorly without swap.

So how does putting swap on RAM help that situation? You’re not increasing the overall memory space by doing so, but merely partitioning it into two different buckets (while also adding the complexity and performance overhead of accessing the part that is now ‘swap’).

Cheers!


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