<div dir="auto">I've done both as a hack yes.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">W.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Feb 27, 2019, 11:51 AM Gary via talk, <<a href="mailto:talk@gtalug.org">talk@gtalug.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
  
    
  
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    So another 2 gigs of swap wouldn't hurt. Can I use a swap file IN
    ADDITION TO a swap partition?<br>
    /gary<br>
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          <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Feb 27, 2019 at 7:02
            AM Gary via talk <<a href="mailto:talk@gtalug.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">talk@gtalug.org</a>>
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              with 20 gigs ram. Does anyone know what the optimum <br>
              size swap area that I should have? Currently, my swap
              partition is 2 <br>
              gigs. Can I increase that by creating a swap file in
              addition to the <br>
              swap partition?<br>
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              /gary<br>
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            <div>Is swap size still as relevant as it was a decade ago?
              On a host with 20G RAM, I'd imagine the likelihood of
              hitting swap being much lower.  Having a couple of G
              available just in case seems like a good idea, but I'm
              unsure if the old (Total RAM * 2)=swap equation still
              rings true.  <br>
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            <div>*does some quick internet sleuthing* <br>
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            <div>According to this article: <a href="https://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-swap-space.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-swap-space.html</a>
              RedHat basically says that for CentOS server 7, a minimum
              of 4G is recommended.  The caveat to this is that if your
              system needs to hibernate/suspend-to-disk, in which case
              you'll want 1.5-2x RAM as swap in order to write in-use
              memory to disk.</div>
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