Re: 12gb quantum bigfoot ts as swap
A swap partition solely for suspend won't be doing a lot of random writes on it. You will not be happy using the Bigfoot for swap of course, but even sequential writes/reads will still take a long time on it, which is what suspend/resume does.
I use swap files that work for suspend on Linux, it works fine. I think the only negative for Linux when talking about swapfiles is that it cannot dynamically resize them. However you can have many of them - just that I think that you can only have one for suspend/resume to swap. One trick if you have plenty of disk is to keep on making a bigger swap file and "swap" them around dynamically to emulate Windows behavior, but this is very slow.
Depending on what you use your computer for, suspending/hibernating should be faster than starting from scratch, even with an SSD. You have to also count in loading the applications that you run as well, of course. However what worries me more is that if I accidently change the HW while the computer is off (like remove RAM, change ethernet, etc.), the result tends to mean wave goodbye to data...
Mostly I suspend/hibernate on laptops only to deal with power events (battery low, moving the machine around). I enabled suspend/resume on my desktops for the sheer enjoyment of it, the risk of hibernation/suspend induced loss of data on desktops isn't worth the power/boot time savings.
A swap partition solely for suspend won't be doing a lot of random writes on it. You will not be happy using the Bigfoot for swap of course, but even sequential writes/reads will still take a long time on it, which is what suspend/resume does.
I use swap files that work for suspend on Linux, it works fine. I think the only negative for Linux when talking about swapfiles is that it cannot dynamically resize them. However you can have many of them - just that I think that you can only have one for suspend/resume to swap. One trick if you have plenty of disk is to keep on making a bigger swap file and "swap" them around dynamically to emulate Windows behavior, but this is very slow.
Depending on what you use your computer for, suspending/hibernating should be faster than starting from scratch, even with an SSD. You have to also count in loading the applications that you run as well, of course. However what worries me more is that if I accidently change the HW while the computer is off (like remove RAM, change ethernet, etc.), the result tends to mean wave goodbye to data...
Mostly I suspend/hibernate on laptops only to deal with power events (battery low, moving the machine around). I enabled suspend/resume on my desktops for the sheer enjoyment of it, the risk of hibernation/suspend induced loss of data on desktops isn't worth the power/boot time savings.
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