[ubuntu-za] Swap size

[David Bodmer]

If you have over 2gb ram its almost not necessary to have swap space, Ubuntu
doesn't need much more than a few hundred mb at peak usage, unless ur doing
3d animation or something really demanding.

I never use swap space, and have never encountered a problem.

David Bodmer

On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 2:10 PM, Denham Coote <denhamcoote at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi everyone
>
> In the past, I've often seen it suggested that one should use 1.5x system
> RAM as the size of the swap partition.  This was also when TVs were black
> and white and mullets were cool.
>
> Anyway, I have 4gb, with an equally sized swap partition.  Is this
> necessary?  As I type this, I'm using 0 bytes. 0.0% of my swap.
>
> What are you folks using?
>
> Denham.
>
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