Swap space

[Renata Rocha]

On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 22:48, Jason Carson <jason-HjkH5KTEMfuEjziKL+yzSg at public.gmane.org> 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?

You won't need more than 2GB of swap, in general. But read this:

http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-swap-space.html


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