Mint on SSD - and how much SWAP on 12 GB Ram?

[Homwer]

Hi,
i would like to install Mint on my 30 GB SSD - and i'm wondering if its possible place some parts of it on my normal HD?
And how much SWAP is appropriated , having 12 GB Ram ?

[technoferret]

Unless your into some VERY serious 3D graphic rendering I wouldn't think you'd need ANY swap having 12 Gig of memory.

If you want to save space on your SSD then it might be a good idea to set up /home on the hard drive but you'll have to ask someone more linux savvy than me as to how to do it.

Cheers, dave

[Homwer]

Ok, thank you, i've heard that there should be some serious problems when the ram is full and no swap partition is available.

[nunol]

As technoferret already said, you probably don't need a SWAP with that amount of RAM but if you want a SWAP try zram, it's a RAM compressed (lzo) swap so will not touch your SSD.

[wyrdoak]

With SSD, I'll go with Nunol on this. ZRAM would probbly be best with your RAM, here's an idea at using ZRAM http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/post/150355/#p150355