From what I understand, for laptops to properly hibernate, they need at
least as much swap as you have RAM.  But on the little servers I set up for
my students/etc....SWAP is never used.

Phil W

On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 9:13 PM, coverturtle <coverturtle@gmail.com> wrote:

>  The quick answer is that a swap partition is faster than a swap file.
> Using a file means you have the overhead of the file system software.
> Using a partition means that the kernel can use the swap space with less
> overhead.
>
> If you noticed when you installed, the linux installer only wants to
> allocate as much swap space as you have memory.  If you intend to add more
> memory later, you might want to
> make your swap partition as large as the maximum size of memory you
> computer will hold.  OTOH, I've noticed that I hardly ever use any swap
> space at all and I only have 2GB
> of memory.
>
> Watch the memory use in more or less real time in you system monitor app.
>
> On 03/15/2015 09:13 PM, Michael Havens wrote:
>
> I was wondering why Linux uses a swap partition rather than a swap file. I
> mean I would think a swap file would be superior since a files size can
> fluctuate whereas a partition is static.
>  :-)~MIKE~(-:
>
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