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Curious, what tasks do you use that much RAM for?
Totally overkill. I thought I would be running lots of containers and virtual machines, but really never seem to use more than 16gb total. And I didn’t set up a swap partition, neither.
You should always use a swap partition for linux, even if you have more than "enough" memory. It just works better for a very very tiny loss of diskspace.
https://haydenjames.io/linux-performance-almost-always-add-swap-space/
Swap space is good to have, but a swap file is more convenient than a swap partition