System ground down to a halt

[W Scott Lockwood III]

On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 12:02 PM, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 20 May 2016 at 18:51, Paul Smith <paul at mad-scientist.net> wrote:
>> 13G swap is _really_ asking for
>> trouble.
>
>
> Why?
>
> There is no harm in having too much.
>
> If you want the system to hibernate and wake again, you need swap at
> least equal to RAM.

Not only that, but if swap is less than equal to the size of physical
memory, you risk not getting a core dump in the event that the system
generates one.