Michael T Babcock<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://bluenoser.me/@Jeff" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Jeff</span></a></span> swap is really useful because most programs are requesting RAM they don't really need and when you're using "all" your RAM, its nice to have the unnecessary bits in swap and leave RAM free for active use.<br>Swap is also used for hibernation.<br>There's a point at which you may have enough RAM to not care, but even with 48GiB, my system often has quite a bit swapped out because Chrome.<br><a href="https://floss.social/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Linux</span></a> <a href="https://floss.social/tags/RAM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RAM</span></a> <a href="https://floss.social/tags/Swap" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Swap</span></a> <a href="https://floss.social/tags/overcommit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>overcommit</span></a></p>