System ground down to a halt

[Bret Busby]

On 21/05/2016, compdoc <compdoc at hotrodpc.com> wrote:
>> was that the swap space should be twice the size of the RAM
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> The Ubuntu installer creates a swap that equals the amount of ram. I usually
> let it, since swap is rarely used and it's not too much disk space.
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> However, for my servers I use a 60GB SSD to boot from, and on a server with
> 32G of ram the swap partition was larger than that the data partition after
> the install.
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A thing that I wonder - would using an SSD for a swap partition, be
significantly slower than just using RAM? From what I understand, SSD
access speeds are not much slower than RAM (as always, I could be
wrong).

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Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia

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