How much swap?

Sam to

SelfhostedEnglish • 2 years ago

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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Alvaro
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4•2 years ago
@[email protected] Honestly it depends a lot on your use case. I have 1x RAM swap and usually only half is used

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