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I have a question for the experienced linux people on here. How important is the swap partition in 2025 if my machine has over 30G of RAM and I have plans to upgrade the RAM in the future.

I've already deleted it to expand my home partition, and haven't noticed any performance issues, yet. But is there something I'm missing?

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Michael T Babcock
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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.
Swap is also used for hibernation.
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.
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silverwizard
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@Jeff MacKinnon 30GB shaved off your SSD is probably too small to notice, and the one time a year you need it, it's really nice to haveb
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