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Shrink or remove swap with 4GB RAM and SSD?

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I wasn't exactly sure so I created a swap partition 4100MB in size. Now I have swappiness at 0 and it's highly unlikely I'll ever need swap because I don't use any memory intensive apps. I also don't hibernate. My SSD is large enough at 256GB but not huge with half of it used by Win 8.1. Should I shrink swap and if yes to what size or should I get rid of it altogether.

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answered 1 Year ago elecerna · Accepted Answer

4GB RAM isn't that much actually, if you run chrome or firefox and you have multiple tabs opened for a while you can get to 4GB usage quite quickly.

You can monitor your ram usage with the "System Monitor" application. If you find that you never really exceed 4GB and your swap remains empty you might consider shrinking it. I wouldn't recommend getting rid of it altogether, since Ubuntu will randomly close applications if you run out of RAM and you have no swap.

I have installed myself a little indicator which always shows me how much RAM i use, which I find quite handy. You can find the instructions how to install it in this post: https://askubuntu.com/a/40019/255967