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Originally Posted by J65nko View Post
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$ swapctl -l
Device      512-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity  Priority
swap_device     128000        0   128000     0%    0
Should I vote I use it nor not?

A swap partition will not eat any bread.
Further, a swap partition will not eat a primary entry either, and all Linuces or *BSDs can mount an extended Linux swap partition.
Hard drive space is penty, so I have a swap parition in the "extended" area, usage 0% , available to whoever is concerned
Well, I am the kind of guy holding his pants with both a bet and suspenders.

La,la: 32MB of swap once was plenty.
If you intend to debug a memory dump, you might use a swap=memory. If this happens me twice, I reinstall the OS from fresh.
Some laptops suspend to swap (or elsewhere).
Some OSes really make a bad usage of the RAM (and swap).
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the FAQ reads: ... twice the size of your main system RAM. This rule is nonsense.
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