[Bug 1032322] Re: Swap space allocation for large memory systems needs improvement

[Dmitrijs Ledkovs]

As per https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Importance
"""
Wishlist: Missing functionality.
* If it is non-trivial to implement, it should rather be written as a feature specification, see FeatureSpecifications.
"""
It is possible to modify the default recipes, but that will harm the Desktop installations. [1]
Another possibility is to introduce alternative package partman-auto-server, which will replace/divert partman-auto recipes.
Or we could push for recipe "flavour" support in Debian.

I think it will be useful to have a UDS session as part of foundations
or server track to discuss this, choose what needs modification and how
to implement it. Probably all default recipes need a "refresh" or a
review to make sure they are all still relevant.

[1] desktop users like hibernate: 42 000+ views on the askubuntu.com
website for the question "How to enable hibernate?"
http://askubuntu.com/questions/94754/how-to-enable-hibernation-in-12-04

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Title:
  Swap space allocation for large memory systems needs improvement

Status in “partman-auto” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in “partman-auto” source package in Precise:
  Confirmed
Status in “partman-auto” source package in Quantal:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  The recipe used for automatic swap space allocation during install
  this is:

  100% 512 200% linux-swap
          $lvmok{ }
          $reusemethod{ }
          method{ swap }
          format{ } .

  Where we currently allocate a minimum of 100% of swap (maximum 200%).
  The original justification for this is that you need 100% of your
  memory to guarantee hibernate works (bug #311299).    However, for
  servers, we don't hibernate and often have large amounts of memory
  installed, i.e. 100's of GB or even TBs, and such a method wastes a
  lot of disk space.

  I propose we do at least 100% (probably a bit more) for machines up to
  a certain level of memory (4GB or less.../maybe/ up to 8GB), to ensure
  client machines can hibernate.  However after that, we set some sort
  of sliding scale approach that maxes out at a reasonable amount for
  servers.  Experienced users can always override the settings if they
  want.

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