Consider your needs before deciding. Disabling swap might improve performance if your system has enough RAM.
Consider your needs before deciding. Disabling swap might improve performance if your system has enough RAM.
It might make sense to turn off swap given your limited RAM. With only 8GB available and no clear plan for upgrades, keeping swap disabled could help avoid performance issues. Your SSD setup also supports this approach.
Consider swapping on a hard drive or perform a minimal swap. Removing it leads to unusual crashes or bugs. The smallest size that still allows the computer to sleep is 400MB. Disable indexing, ensure scheduled defragmentation is off (obviously), and make sure TRIM is enabled.
Give it a shot and check how it performs for you. It’s been turned off since Windows XP without any problems. Systems with 4GB, 8GB and now 16GB have all functioned correctly. Yes, I also play BF3/4 without any issues.
Is this running on a Linux system? I’m not familiar with how swapping works there, but I usually avoid it unless necessary.