System ground down to a halt

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Fri, 20 May 2016 19:02:51 +0200, Liam Proven wrote:
>On 20 May 2016 at 18:51, Paul Smith <paul at mad-scientist.net> wrote:
>> 13G swap is _really_ asking for
>> trouble.  
>
>
>Why?
>
>There is no harm in having too much.
>
>If you want the system to hibernate and wake again, you need swap at
>least equal to RAM.

AFAIK compression is used, so the swap could be smaller than the RAM,
but indeed, too much swap doesn't harm and the mentioned 2 GiB swap for
sure are too small, to suspend 16 GiB of RAM to disk.