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    Are there any sources about the 25% free disk space? Commented Jan 5, 2015 at 15:13
  • I've added a reference. This is similar to memory and hash map, because it's garbage collected. Below that the GC overhead will become rapidly an issue. Commented Jan 6, 2015 at 10:00
  • For posterity, I would like to add that the section you referenced was removed from the ArchWiki in this revision, with the following comment: "it will take some effort to buy an SSD without TRIM or overprovisioning: kingston.com/us/ssd/overprovisioning". Commented Feb 14, 2019 at 0:25
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    In reality you either put swap on SSD or you configure no swap. There really isn't any situation where you want to swap on HDD is SSD is an alternative. Commented Mar 11, 2019 at 11:49
  • @Wernight What is EBS? Commented Dec 1, 2020 at 8:21