On 18/07/2020 06:31, Shawn K. Quinn wrote:
On 7/18/20 00:18, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
If you're current RAM+swap is say 8GiB+8GiB, one alternative is to consider upgrading RAM to 16GiB and ditching swap entirely. That could save your lazy butt from having to learn how to encrypt swap - and just so you know I do in fact want you to feel good about your choice, it will also mean a faster overall user experience ;D
Some of us out here are stuck on older systems with a maximum of 8GiB of RAM. Others may be using systems like the Raspberry Pi that can't be upgraded (that I am aware) and that typically max out at 4GiB or 8GiB.
Sure, it will be a bit faster having 16GiB of RAM and no swap than 8GiB RAM + 8GiB swap if that is an option. However, modern operating systems are designed to swap out out certain things to make the best use of all available RAM and so you will technically not get the full benefit of a RAM upgrade going this route.
You could, of course, use 8Gib of RAM as a swap ramdisk ... I'll get my coat Peter Fairbrother It may be, however, that your usage
patterns only max out 16GiB of virtual memory usage either way, in which case it may not matter as much.