[CentOS] How much SWAP Space.

Thu Jul 7 01:32:52 UTC 2011
William Warren <hescominsoon at emmanuelcomputerconsulting.com>

On 7/6/2011 9:17 PM, Kaushal Shriyan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have loaded CentOS 5.6 on HP DL 180G6 2U Rack Server and the
> physical RAM is 32 GB. As per
> http://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/Deployment_Guide-en-US/ch-swapspace.html
> It says it should be 1 x of Physical RAM or less. Not sure about the
> "less" word in deciding swap space size
>
> Please suggest/guide further on what all parameters i should decide to
> set swap space.
>
> Regards,
>
> Kaushal
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frankly unless you anticipate needing to use swap i would not set more 
than 8 gigs..it really depends on your application.