[Bulk] How much swap space for a 32 GB RAM system?

Ralf Mardorf ralf.mardorf at rocketmail.com
Tue Jul 22 16:44:09 UTC 2014


On Tue, 2014-07-22 at 19:35 +0300, Anton Sayetsky wrote:
> 2014-07-22 19:30 GMT+03:00 Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf at rocketmail.com>:
> > On Tue, 2014-07-22 at 17:05 +0100, Arthur Chance wrote:
> >> I'm getting a new machine with 32 GB of memory. The old "twice physical
> >> memory" sizing seems ridiculous, so how big should I make swap? Do I
> >> even need swap with this much memory?
> >
> > Do you hibernate?
> FreeBSD does NOT support S4 state.

My apologies. I checked this and found a PC-BSD thread where somebody
claimed that he suspends to swap, but I didn't check if that claim is
correct ;).




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