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Why should the size of the swap partition be double of the RAM size?
Does the rule of 1.5 *memory= swap still apply in these days where systems can have32 GB of memory. Besides the fact that it is always bad for a system to start swapping.
3It is not always bad for a system to start swapping. It is bad to start reading from swap back. – Michael Krelin - hacker – 2012-10-02T16:26:21.057
There is probably never a reason to have more than 4GB of swap space. My university has a machine with 64GB of ram and it has 8GB of swap. – None – 2012-10-02T16:26:58.733
Are you running a server that might start an uncapped number of server threads or processes lying dormant for a long time? Is it a mail server? – Dmitri Chubarov – 2012-10-02T16:28:41.343