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swap memory question

Asked by David

How much swap memory should i have? I have a 500gb hdd and 6GB ram.
My specs
Release 12.04 (precise) 64-bit
Kernel Linux 3.8.0-34-generic
GNOME 3.4.2

Memory: 5.7 GiB
Processor: Intel® Core™ i3-3227U CPU @ 1.90GHz × 4

Thank you <3 I just want to run steam games smoothly.

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David Pires (slickymaster) said : 		#1

Please refer to these links:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SwapFaq
http://www.tldp.org/LDP/sag/html/swap-allocation.html
http://askubuntu.com/questions/49109/i-have-16gb-ram-do-i-need-32gb-swap

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#2

For 6Gb RAM, use 6.6Gb swap (1.1 x RAM for over 2Gb RAM).

Unless you are planning to hammer the system or need suspend / hibernate you will not touch your swap space with that much RAM. Set vm.swappiness to 2 and you'll sail.

If you need hibernate / suspend then set 6.6Gb swap. I can imagine you have drive space to chuck around anyway so 6.6Gb space used as swap probably won't be noticed.

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