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[Bret Busby]

On 13/6/23 00:30, Ralf Mardorf via ubuntu-users wrote:
> PS: OTOH an opposite example is Swap Space. Assuming hibernation isn't
> used, while everything increased, swap is rarely needed anymore, if at
> all a few MiB.
> 
> 

I maintain having swap space of 32GB, especially, where the RAM is less 
than 32GB, is a good idea.

The calculation for swap space, used to be four times the amount of RAM, 
but, that goes back to the days when a high powered computer had 32MB 
RAM - MB, not GB, and, part of UNIX system admin, from memory, was 
dealing with paging, and, setting up sufficient swap space, and, that 
was also an important part of system configuration, when installing 
Linux - having a sufficiently large  swap partition.

On this computer; a Xeon CPU, with 128GB of RAM, I still have a 32GB 
swap partition - I figure that it does no harm, and, the primary hard 
drive is one of the NVVME (?) thingies - an SSD on a card. So, when it 
does require swapping, it should be sufficiently fast.

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Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
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