How much swap on laptop?

Tue Dec 12 14:51:05 UTC 2006

On Tuesday 12 December 2006 14:56, Marc Schwartz wrote:

> BTW, my swap is also encrypted (along with /home, /var and /tmp) using
> dm-crypt/LUKS and I don't see any notable performance hit using a 7200
> RPM 60 Gb HD.

I use tmpfs for /tmp, which is a ram disk that uses swap when not enough ram 
is available. This way encryption of /tmp contents is only done when 
neccessary but this way one should have enough swap in case large temporarly 
data is stored in /tmp.

Regards,
Till
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