[18:12] <sem> What size should my Swap partition be on an SSD with a 25 GB / partition? top shows that I have 3652 MiB of Memory
[18:24] <sem> i found this page which helpfully has a table. It recommends 6 GB for a system with 4 GB ram if you want to support hibernation... Maybe I will forgo hibernation (because i have SSD) and use 2 GB swap
[18:49] <sem> i am going to install lubuntu 22.04 on a laptop from 2009; if it works ok, I will maybe upgrade my 20.04 partition to 22.04
[18:49] <arraybolt3> Hibernation doesn't work all that well on Linux anyway, so no great loss.
[18:49] <arraybolt3> Personally I would go with RAM compression rather than a swapfile though. Faster, less wear-and-tear on the disk.
[18:50] <arraybolt3> sem: https://discourse.lubuntu.me/t/enabling-ram-compression-on-lubuntu/3323
[18:56] <sem> thanks for the tip, i'll read up on it
[18:58] <sem> What do you think about the CPU load on a 1.4 GHz dual-core cpu from 2009? Maybe I am better off with the wear-and-tear on the SDD with swap
[19:44] <arraybolt3> The CPU load of RAM compression is very minimal.
[19:44] <arraybolt3> I'm using it on an old repurposed Chromebook that I reflashed with MrChromebox firmware and installed Lubuntu on it, the CPU is quite slow and yet RAM compression doesn't hardly affect performance at all.
[19:44] <arraybolt3> sem: ^
[20:41] <sem> thanks for the tip