Steve Litt: > On Wed, 10 Sep 2014 16:00:18 +0800 >> >> I had understood the rule to be that swap space size should be at >> least double the size of the RAM. > > I think that made a lot more sense back in the days when 128MB of RAM > was standard. If you have 16GB of RAM, and you're not using KDE nor a > lot of VMs, are you ever going to really need all that RAM?
ACK. Until a few months ago I ran my laptop with 4GB RAM and no swap at
all. I didn't have any problems, although I have to admit that I mostly
run a slim window manager (Awesome WM), Iceweasel and a few terminals.
Sometimes I browse/edit photos, but not very heavily.
J.
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