-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Friday, 2017-12-15 at 07:17 -0500, James Knott wrote:
On 12/15/2017 03:48 AM, Richard Brown wrote:
On 14 December 2017 at 17:48, James Knott <james.knott@rogers.com> wrote:
On 12/14/2017 11:34 AM, Richard Brown wrote:
IIRC the official openSUSE recommended sizing of swap is 2x RAM-size, but no larger than 2GB, unless you want Hibernation, in which case it is 2GB or 1x RAM-size, whichever is the larger Care to provide a link for that? While it may have been the case with *nix systems years ago, I don't think it applies any more. https://www.novell.com/support/kb/doc.php?id=7010157
Well, lessee now...
"Is swap space required? Strictly speaking, a swap partition is not required for SLES. However, swap space is recommended."
and
"How much swap space is recommended? Every server environment is different, and swap space requirements vary greatly depending upon the software environment. As a general recommendation, a swap space size of 2GB is typically sufficient. (Some large database environments may require much larger swap spaces.)"
Well, we are not talking servers here, but a desktop/laptop situation (OP). A business server (SLE) should respond as fast as possible. If swap is needed, then more ram is actually needed instead, IMO. In that situation, 2 GiB swap is a good recommendation.
I don't see anything that says swap must be 2x memory, as some claim. I see it can be any amount according to the above, but 2 GB recommended. The thing about swap is it's virtual memory. It pretends to be memory space. This means, the more memory you have, the less swap you need. That's always been the case for as long as I can remember, on any OS.
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