[kzrdude]

What function does the 0.5GB swap have?

[petecox]

I just wish Linux distro installers would make opting out the default option; no, I don't want to swap on my SSD. The last time I installed a distro, I still had to select the manual option for partitioning.

With an 8 Gig stick in my NUC, for normal desktop usage it never goes above 3.

[Karunamon]

And even then; they provision an absurd amount of it. I just did a fresh Ubuntu install. On a machine with 32 gigs ram, it creates a 32 gig swap partition by default!

[KozmoNau7]

They probably reason that you want your system to be able to hibernate, plus storage is cheap.

I have 8GB of swap for the 8GB in my laptop, for that reason.

On my desktop with 16GB, the w 2GB of swap it has is sometimes too little, and everything grinds to a halt.

[vinw]

32GB of SSD isn't that cheap!

[userbinator]

A last-ditch safety buffer, to induce the slowdown so that you'll recognise that RAM is running low and hopefully prevent from actually completely running out.

[black_puppydog]

By that time, my system is usually responding to simple keypresses with latencies >1min... :|