Re: swap size

[Greg Baker <ggbaker@cs.sfu.ca>]

The magic amount of swap is the totaly memory you ever expect to need,
minus the amount of physical RAM you have.  That's it, really.  These
1xRAM, 2xRAM, etc. rules are just vague hand-wavey guidelines. Just
guess how much memory you might need and subtract 1G (in your case).

Note: some systems mirror the physical RAM in swap, so having less swap
than RAM is meaningless and having the same amount is pointless.  Linux
doesn't do that, so the amount of swap you allocate is added to your
total RAM available.

Greg

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