[ale] Anyone know if this is true?

[David Tomaschik]

On 10/12/2011 09:40 PM, Tavarvess Ware wrote:
>
> Scott I read the ram x 2= swap in my Linux classes as well and have
> generally followed that, but with memory soaring as it has lately i am
> starting to rethink that.  A system 48gigs of memory would be 96 in
> swap..... I wonder if te old format has changed and I haven't heard yet.
>
There's really no good rule of thumb that covers all cases.  Servers
don't suspend to disk, so that's not a big issue.  At work, we run
servers with 32G of memory with 4G of swap and have no issues.  (Based
on what we've seen, 2G would be plenty.)

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