On Sun, Jul 19, 2020, 3:20 AM Peter Fairbrother <[1]peter@tsto.co.uk>
   wrote:

     > 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

   No need.  Putting your swapfile on tmpfs is how to encrypt your ram,
   significantly deterring remanance and emissions attacks on its privacy,
   but also crashing many kernels.
   K

     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.
     >

   There is proof inside many peoples' electronics.  Proof that a
   marketing group would contract development of a frightening virus.  A
   virus that responds to peoples' keystrokes and browsing habits, and
   changes what people see on their devices.  A virus that alters
   political behavior en masse, for profit.

References

   1. mailto:peter@tsto.co.uk