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    Giant swap partitions

    https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=428664

    Apparently Neon has enabled hibernation, which Ubuntu has disabled for some years.
    Last edited by claydoh; Nov 04, 2020, 08:55 PM.

    #2
    I've always set my SWAP to at or more of the installed RAM. I'd like to enable Hibernation on my Kubuntu machine. With the SSDs I have, it should work as good as sleep, IMO.

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      #3
      probably, esp. with a zippy nvme ssd, but is came as a small surprise. I suspend to ram on my laptop, or rather I just shut the lid Resume is pretty close to instantaneous from ram, no waiting for the bios to load up, boot loaders, etc, and all that jazz. 21Gb is just quite a waste for me.

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        #4
        I understand that.

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          #5
          I have 16Gb RAM and an 8Gb swap file. When I'm up the machine is on all day (desktop PC) The Swap is never used, not even when I have X-Plane running.
          Constant change is here to stay!

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            #6
            At some point during my 18.04 usage, I re-installed for hardware updates and during the clean install, I set the SWAP partition to 16 MB rather than 16GB. 18.04 never skipped a beat and I didn't realize my faux pas cum laude until a few months later. It's back to 16GB under 20.04, but only because I have the capacity on the EFI/OS/SWAP SSD. Habits ...
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            Intel i7 11th Gen | 16GB | 1TB | KDE Plasma 5.27.11​| Kubuntu 24.04 | 6.8.0-31-generic



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