Questions re swap and hibernate interaction on 8 gig machine

[William Park]

On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 06:06:58PM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote:
>   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?

I have 8GB and no swap, and it runs fine.  I agree with Bill Gates when
he said, "8GB is more than anyone would ever want!".

-- 
William

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