Do I need swap space if I have 32GB of RAM?
>>107978735you didn't need to create a thread just to ask this stupid question
>>107978744/sqt/ wasn't helpful last time.
>>107978735I'm on an SSD btw.
>>107978735Will you ever need to store more than 32GiB of data in memory? If no, then no, if yes, then yes.
>>107978925Would gaming require this much?
>>107981192probably not maybe on some of the new ue5 games perhaps especially if you have a bunch of shit running in the background and use windowsmy buddy was playing a ue5 game and it was using 17gb of ram and 15gb of vram and 100% of his gpu and cpu for absolute mid tier graphics and 60ishfpsbasically it depends if your dumb enough to spend money on assware
>>107978735Yes.
>>107978793It never is. The point was thst you should fuck off and kill yourself.
>>107978735Nope, if gaming is all you do then it's more than fine. I have 32GB of DDR4 in my rig and I play at 1440p with high/ultra settings and the highest ram usage I've seen was Hogwarts Legacy and Escape from Tarkov for some reason. Hogwarts chewed up 23 GB of ram pretty regularly. Escape From Tarkov also often sits around 18-20gb and I have seen it peak at around 26GB. Solution if needed? Drop the settings a bit.
>>107978735Programs like to shove rarely used data into swap anyway even if you have 1000PB of RAM. I just set up ZRAM and don't bother with it. The programs can be happy thinking they've put their gay little bytes into swap space and I get the comfort of saving a couple gigs of RAM by compressing it.
>>107978735Depends on the workload
>>107981223>>107982301>>107981464I'll be using Linux, would swap space wear out my SSD faster? Doesn't Windows use swap space by default?
>>107978735Some applications will complain or act up if there's no swap.
>>107978735are you going to run any vms, docker images or llms?if not, you're golden.
>>107978735I am using a 8GB thinnkpad for indie games and surfing.never had I a memory issue, like even with 10 youtube tabs open,I just have a 3GB ZRam Swap that sometimes it is utilized and zero file swap.
>>107978735>swap space What? Like upgrade to more ram? Nope. 32GB is still more than enough. Sure you can max it out if you run a extremely heavy programs or some modded games but I doubt that's something you do.
I guess I'll go without swap space and see how it runs.
>>107978735I use zram
>>107986934What's that?
>>107987088Basically, you swap on your ram
just download more dedotated wam
>>107978735Not really. If you have at least 8gb of ram you're almost never going to run out of memory for average normie day to day stuff. And if you do need more than that, nowadays you're better off just getting more ram than using swap.
Not OP, let me be slightly more "technical". Will some Windows software suffer if I disable swap? I have 64 GiB of RAM in my i7-7700 shitbox.
>>107983516Buy any spinning rust hard drive to use as swap space.
>>107978735It's gonna sound crazy but yes. Some programs crash without swap, even if there's enough normal RAM available. For example, the piece of shit game Monster Hunter Wilds. I have 32 GB too by the way.
>>107978735now, serious question, is there any way of sharing swap space between linux, and windows? i need to dual boot for work shit
>>107988158Have you trued it with both? Also are you running it through Proton?
>>107978735You need some swap if you want to use zswap.
>>107978735No, you don't. I only have 8gb and I turned that shit off.
>>107988513Ask /fglt/, create a FAT32 partition ans set Windows to use it for the page file. On Linux, during boot quickformat this as swap and mount it, then on shutdown quickformat it as FAT32. You may also use a file on the FAT32 partition as swap, you will need to create it and erase on startup and shutdown.
>>107978735swap space is an extra ram which you can download from the internet like a car
>>107988513swap space is just a partitionyou just need to tell the respective OSes where it's located
>>107978735Yes. Some windows programs/games will crash if the swap disabled or set too small.
