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Selfhosted@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

How much swap?

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How much swap?

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Selfhosted@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

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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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Don’t even bother with a SWAP partition. Create an empty file on your / partition so you can grow/shrink it as needed.

did if=/dev/zero of=/SWAP bs=1024m count=4 mkswap /SWAP swapon /SWAP
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  Not a golden rule. For example btrfs has limited support for swapfiles.

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