Partitioning Disk

Chris Jones jonesc at hep.phy.cam.ac.uk
Fri Jul 31 11:27:54 UTC 2009


> Calculating swap size as 2 X RAM is really old-fashioned, you should
> never need anywhere near 8G.  It's a waste of disk space.
> 
> IMHO, if you ever use up even 1G of swap, there is something seriously
> wrong (unless you're running with the bare minimum of RAM).

If you want to have suspend (to ram) working, you need to having at 
least as much sap as physical ram. I would never go less than that.

Chris





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