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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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I’m one of those people.

I will leave you this: https://chrisdown.name/2018/01/02/in-defence-of-swap.html

This is a nice read from a kernel developer responsible for memory management.

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Thanks for sharing. Always good to learn more.
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