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Recommended disk space for Swap

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Looking for some guidance on disk space for Swap. What is the recommended disk space to allocate to Swap? 

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  1. finid on Aug 25, 2011 Reply

    Disk space assigned to Swap depends on the amount of installed memory or RAM. Current recommendation goes like so:

    4GB of RAM or less === a minimum of 2GB of swap space

    4GB to 16GB of RAM === a minimum of 4GB of swap space

    16GB to 64GB of RAM === minimum of 8GB of swap space

    64GB to 256GB of RAM === a minimum of 16GB of swap space

    256GB to 512GB of RAM === a minimum of 32GB of swap space

    These were taken from a current installation guide for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

    Keep in mind that the old recommendation to assign 2*RAM is, well, old. It no longer applies today.

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