[ubuntu-za] Swap size

[Chris Mulder]

If you are using a laptop, you'll need to have swap space equal to
your physical ram for suspend to disk/hibernate to work. If it's a
desktop, I'd keep a small swap partition around for just in case, but
overall a piece of silicon is always faster than a hard disk platter
:D ...

Chris

On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 1:15 PM, David Bodmer <david.bodmer at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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