Olaf van der Spek <olafvds...@gmail.com> writes:

> On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 10:31 PM, Lennart Sorensen 
> <lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 10:18:33PM +0100, Olaf van der Spek wrote:
>>
>>> Is it? I thought it was the default. More doesn't make sense.
>>
>> If you have 8GB ram, 256MB swap is useless.  4 or 8GB might be useful.
>> Some people work with datasets that large sometimes.  If you have 32MB
>> ram, 256MB swap is probably too much.
>
> I'm not sure swap size should be related to memory size like that.
> It's more related to the amount of committed but not regularly used
> memory and the performance of the swap device.

Don't forget that swap is also used for storing the system image during
hibernation.  It's a pretty important use case on desktop systems at least.
-- 
Cheers,
Feri.



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