Swap partition sizes Was: Best partition size for Ubuntu Root

[Charlie Kravetz]

On Fri, 2008-05-02 at 14:08 +0100, Avi Greenbury wrote:
> On Fri, 02 May 2008 20:05:57 +0800
> SYNass IT Ubuntu / Linux <i-ubux at synass.net> wrote:
> 
> > Hi Leafman, 
> > I second Ioannis statement with 2* RAM size !
> > I would recommend first 2* (system's max) RAM size !!
> > 
> 
> Doesn't this date from Solaris 7 or something? Actually, even that was swap == system memory, I think.
> 
> If I've 4Gb of RAM, chances are there's little cause for me to want 4Gb of swap on top of that. 
> In fact, in order to hibernate, I've got 4Gb of swap. I've only ever once see it use swap (a whole 2% when running Vista and XP VMs).
> 
> I'd go with (system memory)+(swap)+(a bit) = (normal system memory requirements at normal load).
> 
> -- 
> Avi Greenbury
> 
No, I believe it might come from the
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Multi-Disk-HOWTO.html
which describes how to partition your hard drives for any distribution.
You might also check out the Ubuntu Installation Guides, included on the
installation cds, attachment C, which also discusses partitions for
Ubuntu, including swap sizes.

good luck, 

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