Could you provide a link to the source/s that informed you of this?

On 28/02/07, Howard Lowndes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I think I have just found a reason why the default installation often
makes swap = 2xRAM.

It's to do with laptops mainly.  When they hibernate they apparently
roll the memory image out to the swap space, hence the recommendation
about the swap space size.

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