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by Karunamon 3082 days ago
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!
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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.

32GB of SSD isn't that cheap!