Questions re swap and hibernate interaction on 8 gig machine

[Walter Dnes]

  I have 8 gigs of ram on my new sytem (will obviously be 64-bit Gentoo)
and I want to know how much swap I need.  The general rule of thumb is
twice the ram.  In this case, it would be 16 gigs.  I think that it may
not need swap when up, unless I do some heavy duty stuff.  My main
concern about a swap partition is how much I need for hibernate-to-disk
to work.  Is there a rule about this, or should I simply allocate 16
gigs out of my terabyte drive, and play it safe?

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Walter Dnes <waltdnes-SLHPyeZ9y/tg9hUCZPvPmw at public.gmane.org>
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