How much swap?

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SelfhostedEnglish • 11 months 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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2•11 months ago
I have 16gb, I play Overwatch 2 through Bottles (Wine) and my ram usage & swap partition are almost always full when playing.

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