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In defence of swap: common misconceptions (chrisdown.name)
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[–] swelter_spark@reddthat.com 2 points 4 days ago

I have a swap partition the size of my RAM, but I've never seen the system use more than maybe 4% of it. It's more of an insurance policy than something that's actually used on a regular basis.