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Buziaczek

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Registered: 2008-08-22

Posts: 18

Size of SWAP partition

Hello everyone. I have 2 GB ( 2048 MB ) of RAM memory, but I read that the size of SWAP partition should be not bigger than 1 GB ( 1024 MB ). What will happen when I create a SwaP partiton of size 2 GB ( 2048 MB ). Can someone help with my problem? I'm very thankful of any help. Contact with me and bye.

Allan

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From: Brisbane, AU

Registered: 2007-06-09

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Re: Size of SWAP partition

You swap partition needs to be at least as big as your RAM if you ever want to suspend to disk.  I have 2GB RAM, 4GB swap but I do a lot of number crunching.  2GB would be fine.

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