[GTALUG] optimum swap size

[Gary]

Excellent! thank you so much.
/gary

On 19-02-27 10:22 AM, Mauro Souza via talk wrote:
> Unless you use suspend to disk, swap is not really needed. I don't 
> believe you would load so many programs it would use all your 20GB of 
> RAM. I have 8GB RAM and 2GB swap, no issues so far.
> I don't even create a swap partition anymore, I create a small swap 
> file 
> (https://linuxize.com/post/how-to-add-swap-space-on-ubuntu-18-04/). 
> This way, I can increase/decrease its size without having to mess with 
> partitioning.
>
>
>
> Mauro
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>
> Em qua, 27 de fev de 2019 às 12:12, Jason Shaw via talk 
> <talk at gtalug.org <mailto:talk at gtalug.org>> escreveu:
>
>     On Wed, Feb 27, 2019 at 7:02 AM Gary via talk <talk at gtalug.org
>     <mailto:talk at gtalug.org>> wrote:
>
>         I have kubuntu 18.04 with 20 gigs ram. Does anyone know what
>         the optimum
>         size swap area that I should have? Currently, my swap
>         partition is 2
>         gigs. Can I increase that by creating a swap file in addition
>         to the
>         swap partition?
>
>         /gary
>
>     Is swap size still as relevant as it was a decade ago? On a host
>     with 20G RAM, I'd imagine the likelihood of hitting swap being
>     much lower.  Having a couple of G available just in case seems
>     like a good idea, but I'm unsure if the old (Total RAM * 2)=swap
>     equation still rings true.
>
>     *does some quick internet sleuthing*
>
>     According to this article:
>     https://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-swap-space.html RedHat
>     basically says that for CentOS server 7, a minimum of 4G is
>     recommended.  The caveat to this is that if your system needs to
>     hibernate/suspend-to-disk, in which case you'll want 1.5-2x RAM as
>     swap in order to write in-use memory to disk.
>
>     -jason
>
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