On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 9:52 AM, Rahul Tidke <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello,
>  I am configuring a server with 3 GB of RAM; how much swap partition size
> should I allocate. I think allocating twice of RAM will be waste of HDD
> space. What is the standard.
>
>
The double rule was created when computers had very little ram (< 512MB).

If you intend to hibernate, then you need at least the same size of the ram.
Otherwise, I think 1GB is good enough.  But you can always use a file as a
swap
area.


http://fcp.surfsite.org/modules/smartfaq/faq.php?faqid=502

http://sanjaykatiyar1.blogspot.com/2007/08/create-swap-file-in-fedora-linux.html


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Paulo Roma Cavalcanti
LCG - UFRJ
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