Swap space

[Mark Lane]

On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 7:54 PM, Chris F.A. Johnson <chris-E7bvbYbpR6jSUeElwK9/Pw at public.gmane.org>wrote:

> On Fri, 11 Dec 2009, Jason Carson wrote:
>
> > Hello everyone,
> >
> > I know the conventional wisdom with respect to swap space has always been
> > to double your memory but I am about to build a system with 4 GB of
> > memory. Do I really need an 8 GB swap space?
>
>     No. I have 2GB RAM with ~1GB swap.
>
>    With all the apps I regularly use open, I've never seen more than
>    65MB swap used.
>
>
That depends if you plan to use suspend to RAM, you need at least as much
swap as system memory. General rule of thumb is you want to have more than
enough because your system will crash if you run out of memory.

-- 
Mark Lane <lmlane-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org>
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