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by ta1243
966 days ago
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My laptop has a mere 32G of ram and 6G swap (currently unused but I did reboot last week) The advice used to be 1.5*physical ram for swap back in the days when I had 4MB of ram and 170MB HDD - well under 5% of disk space Doing that today would be 20% of my disk space which seemed excessive. Perhaps I could create a 24G swap file as a ram drive, giving me 8G of ram and 24G of swap. Why would that be better than just 32G of ram and no swap? Is it better than 40G of ram and no swap? |
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Yep. This was a rule of thumb which I don't think still holds with current RAM capacities.
I don't have swap on my 32G laptop, not sure it's right I guess I could use a 2G-4G swap partition when running a few XWiki instances and a Java IDE as well as a browser with several dozens of tabs instead of having the IDE frequently OOM-killed.