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(  servnov 06-27-2005 08:29 AM  lots of ram, do you need
swapspace? All the desktop systems I manage and play with never
use the disk swap space i partitioned for it. My home computer
has 1024mb ram...and again never uses its swap space. I use disk
space and would like to have that 2 gigs i have under swap. How
much swap do I really need, if any?  LinuxLala 06-27-2005 08:41
AM  With all that RAM you don't need to apply the "Swap should
be 2X" ram formula. I gues you could work with 256MB easily.
cs-cam 06-27-2005 08:41 AM  I have plenty of RAM also but I
still have 768MB for swap. You probably don't need it but it's
nice to have. Should you run out of RAM for some reason, having
swap for the kernel to page to saves it dumping other stuff
which it will then need to read later and slow things down. I
also have 520GB of disk space so having a little bit for swap
doesn't hurt at all. You certainly don't need 2GB though if you
have 1GB of RAM. If yo