I've done both as a hack yes. W.
On Wed, Feb 27, 2019, 11:51 AM Gary via talk, <[email protected]> wrote: > So another 2 gigs of swap wouldn't hurt. Can I use a swap file IN ADDITION > TO a swap partition? > /gary > > On 19-02-27 10:12 AM, Jason Shaw via talk wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 27, 2019 at 7:02 AM Gary via talk <[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 > > > > > --- > Talk Mailing [email protected]https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk > > > --- > Talk Mailing List > [email protected] > https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk >
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