They probably reason that you want your system to be able to hibernate, plus storage is cheap. I have 8GB of swap for the 8GB in my laptop, for that reason. O

They probably reason that you want your system to be able to hibernate, plus storage is cheap. I have 8GB of swap for the 8GB in my laptop, for that reason. On my desktop with 16GB, the w 2GB of swap it has is sometimes too little, and everything grinds to a halt.