Swap space

[William Muriithi]

2009/12/11 Chris F.A. Johnson <chris-E7bvbYbpR6jSUeElwK9/Pw at public.gmane.org>:
> 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.
>
2 GB is the maximum Linux kernel will ever use. Anything above that
will never be used however loaded the system is

I will google and see if I can find the article that had above info later

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