On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 08:45:55AM -0600, nate at refried.org wrote:
> The amount of swap depends on how much you're going to oversubscribe
> your system.  I typically use equal swap and RAM.  Although if you
> have more than a few GB of memory, you probably don't want to give up
> that much disk space to swap.

And there's no need to dedicate a partition to swap; one can always
create a file and use that.  I am told such a swap file is slower,
but it has the advantage of dynamic sizing.

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