My general config is to create a swap partition and set swappiness to 0. so it is there for hibernate, but given 32G of ram it is never really touched. On Wed, Oct 28, 2020 at 1:43 PM Bob Elzer via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > The biggest difference is, files can become fragmented while partitions > don't. On a hard drive this can make a big difference. On an SSD I would > tend not to use a swap partition or file. If you use a swap partition on an > SSD it would confine the writes to a smaller area of the disk and wear it > out faster. So a file would work much better because it has the whole disk > to even out the writes. But you do a lot of swapping that also puts more > wear onto the SSD. So I would tend to put my swap on a hard drive. > > > On Wed, Oct 28, 2020, 8:57 AM Seabass via PLUG-discuss < > plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > >> I tend to prefer swapfiles. >> Doesn't require a partition, so it can be resized easily and won't >> require you to know the partition number. (Opinion: fewer partitions is >> just easier) >> It is encrypted swap when on a fully encrypted drive without needing more >> partitioning work. >> >> I don't actually know a reason to make swap a partition over a swapfile. >> I imagine there is a partition setting somehow or maybe the inability to >> resize is desirable, but that hasn't been my use case before. >> >> To be fair though... I don't use hibernate so don't really need a swap >> either. So it is rare I'd need it anyway. >> ------------------------------ >> Message: 2 >> Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2020 21:22:57 -0700 >> From: Jim >> To: plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> Subject: swap file vs swap partition >> Message-ID: <4613ab4d-61b5-34b0-4944-d0917cec234e@gmail.com> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed >> Regarding swap file vs swap partition: Is one better than the other? >> When I installed Kubuntu on my machine, both options were available and >> I chose the swap file. The OS is installed on an >> SSD--------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -- A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. Stephen