How much swap?

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Selfhosted@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 years ago

I’ve heard a lot of people say your swap should be 2x RAM… but do I really need 32GB of swap?

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I setup Swapspace in case I ever need to compile something very big, but usually my system doesn’t use swap.

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