hello and good day, :grinning_face: well: currently install EOS on a ThinkPad x220 with 4 Gigs of RAM (note: will definintly add more RAM in the winter holiday. but at the moment i do not have time for that: that said: Setting up swap during installation is pretty common, as it gives the opera…

It is hard to say without understanding your workload. I good default number would be 4GB. [image] otrott: well - i also could add swap after running the Installation - that is possible too!!? Sure, you can easily add a swapfile.

thank you so much - this helps alot!

There’s been an interesting exchange of thoughts about swap partition, zram and swap file, which may be useful: [image] Zram vs swap partition vs swapfile Newbie To end the discussion in the “show your desktop” about swap partition yes/no. I want to hear your …

[image] otrott: But how much SWAP would you add here: For a laptop that wants to do hibernation you need as much swap as you have RAM. And if you use a swap file you can easily change swap size at any time. swap partitions are not that flexible. I would install without swap partition and add…

[image] mbod: I would install without swap partition and add a swap file after installation. It is for sure the easiest and most scalable variant. But I would expect a better performance on a separate swap-partition, and if hibernate is needed, I think you need a partition. Not sure if a swa…

[image] wolfn: But I would expect a better performance on a separate swap-partition The performance impact is very minimal. Nothing to be worried about for a standard desktop use case. [image] wolfn: if hibernate is needed, I think you need a partition. You can hibernate to a swapfil…

[image] wolfn: But I would expect a better performance on a separate swap-partition If there is a performance difference it will not be noticeable. I never noticed any performance issue. But if you are concerned about performance you can use zswap in conjunction with your swap file. [imag…

Oh, thanks! Never mind… Next stop I will test this :slight_smile:

[image] mbod: if you are concerned about performance you can use zswap in conjunction with your swap file. Just for clarity, zswap is a kernel feature and at least in officially supported kernels in Arch is enabled by default. If you add a swapfile or swap partition it will be used automatica…

Swap - add during the install or afterwards : and how much would you reccomend!?

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There’s been an interesting exchange of thoughts about swap partition, zram and swap file, which may be useful: