System ground down to a halt

[Tom H]

On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 6:51 PM, Paul Smith <paul at mad-scientist.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 2016-05-19 at 16:56 -0700, MR ZenWiz wrote:
>>
>> I have 16GB of RAM with almost 13GB of swap space (holdover from when
>> I only had 8GB - never updated). I'm running on an i7 (effectively 8
>> CPUs).
>
> The old adage of "swap = 0.5x RAM" makes no sense for systems with >4G
> RAM, which many systems have nowadays.
>
> Personally I would never add more than 2G swap to any of my systems,
> regardless of how much RAM they have. 13G swap is _really_ asking for
> trouble.

Didn't the old adage predate s2ram (for which you need SWAP=RAM)?