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[Israel <israel@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 02/24/2015 03:36 PM, Nio Wiklund wrote:
> ...
> Swap is still useful (I meant that the advice 'twice * RAM' is
> deprecated). You need a smaller proportion of swap compared to RAM than
> before, probably because it is managed better. But the speed penalty is
> probably worse than ever, because the speed of RAM increases faster than
> the speed of HDDs. It is better with SSDs.
Yes, we are saying the same thing.  Swap is useful.  2x swap is maybe
useful for Windows, but not Linux, UNLESS we are hibernating... yes
sorry I am swimming in code :)

We are saying the same things, but I think my words are getting jumbly...
> According to this link
>
> http://askubuntu.com/questions/3369/what-is-the-difference-between-hibernate-and-suspend
> -----
> Suspend does not turn off your computer. It puts the computer and all
> peripherals on a low power consumption mode. If the battery runs out or
> the computer turns off for some reason, the current session and unsaved
> changes will be lost.
>
> Hibernate saves the state of your computer to the hard disk and
> completely powers off. When resuming, the saved state is restored to RAM.
> -----
> So the swap size is important to hibernate, not to suspend.
I will make sure this is evident in the text.
Thank you for being so verbose with me!

> ...
>>> ..
> :-)
I second that smile
:D

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Regards

-Israel
ToriOS Team