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How much swap?

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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mygreatlimbo

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Not a golden rule. For example btrfs has limited support for swapfiles.

wgs

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Of course there's no golden rule. But I've found this one to be pretty useful ! Didn't know about btrfs limitations though, thanks for the hint!

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