Swap space or swapfile use or no-use seems to be among the most common controversial issues in linux. If you wonder why would we engage in such a controversial topic we can explain. Most people using linux today who have relatively new multicore 64bit machines have huge disk drives and more ram than they can possibly use (except for video editors and game players). Most people who get on the hunt for lighter, simpler, easier to control and configure systems tend to end up searching among systems that don’t use systemd. So smart users with older cheaper equipment enjoy sometimes better computing performance than many who have the latest and hottest machine with a mediocre system. So using or not using swap is sometimes a choice between hunting for more RAM or more disk space use. So we thought we should take a shot and help out on this dilemma. Continue reading
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