My suggestion would be if you are considering 4 GB of swap space, follow a layered approach. Define two virtual disks, one for 256 MB and the next one to be for 512 MB and a third lower priority swap disk (physical disk) for the remaining required size. 4GB of swap as virtual disk alone is excessive. And by monitoring the swap disk usages, swap spilling from vdisk1 to vdisk2 to physical disk is the time to validate your Linux memory requirements for that server.
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