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From: Rafael Fontenelle on 25 Apr 2008 00:40
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From: Rafael Fontenelle <rffontenelle(a)gmail.com>
Date: 25/04/2008 01:31
Subject: Re: OT (slightly) swap limits
To: Kamaraju S Kusumanchi <kamaraju(a)bluebottle.com>

2008/4/25, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi <kamaraju(a)bluebottle.com>:
>
> Damon L. Chesser wrote:
>
> > Being in an interview loop looking for employment, I find I am asked
> > questions I never considered, for example: How much is enough swap?
> >
>
>
> For desktops, from my experience, I would say you need at least as much as
> your RAM. To be on the safe side, I go for 2 times the RAM.
>
> I hibernate my desktops pretty frequently. When hibernating a machine, a
> snapshot of the RAM is written on to the swap partition. That is why I
> follow "at least as much as RAM" rule.
>
> hth
> raju
>
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As Kamaraju, I always use a swap partition twice the amount of memory RAM,
for security. I do the same in Windows: always 1.5x or 2x.

Nice article, Damon.

Cheers,

Rafael
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