Excellent! thank you so much.
/gary

On 19-02-27 10:22 AM, Mauro Souza via talk wrote:
Unless you use suspend to disk, swap is not really needed. I don't believe you would load so many programs it would use all your 20GB of RAM. I have 8GB RAM and 2GB swap, no issues so far. I don't even create a swap partition anymore, I create a small swap file (https://linuxize.com/post/how-to-add-swap-space-on-ubuntu-18-04/). This way, I can increase/decrease its size without having to mess with partitioning.



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Em qua, 27 de fev de 2019 às 12:12, Jason Shaw via talk <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> escreveu:

    On Wed, Feb 27, 2019 at 7:02 AM Gary via talk <[email protected]
    <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

        I have kubuntu 18.04 with 20 gigs ram. Does anyone know what
        the optimum
        size swap area that I should have? Currently, my swap
        partition is 2
        gigs. Can I increase that by creating a swap file in addition
        to the
        swap partition?

        /gary

    Is swap size still as relevant as it was a decade ago? On a host
    with 20G RAM, I'd imagine the likelihood of hitting swap being
    much lower.  Having a couple of G available just in case seems
    like a good idea, but I'm unsure if the old (Total RAM * 2)=swap
    equation still rings true.

    *does some quick internet sleuthing*

    According to this article:
    https://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-swap-space.html RedHat
    basically says that for CentOS server 7, a minimum of 4G is
    recommended.  The caveat to this is that if your system needs to
    hibernate/suspend-to-disk, in which case you'll want 1.5-2x RAM as
    swap in order to write in-use memory to disk.

    -jason


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