How much swap space should I configure?

Question

How much swap space should I have? I have a 500GB HDD and 6GB RAM.

My specs:

I just want to run Steam games smoothly.

that's a nice link from Quasim... nowadays 1xRAM swap would just do fine; depends on the memory usage requirements of the applications you use... — rusty, Dec 16 '13 at 05:19

Paul Tanzini · Answer 1 · 2013-12-16T05:43:25.330

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I always set up my swap to be as large as my RAM. This is required for hibernation, but I don't use it.

So, in your case you should have a swap partition that is 6GB.

edited Dec 16 '13 at 05:43

answered Dec 16 '13 at 04:49

Paul Tanzini

Thank you very much! :D Just trying to be on the safe side. – David Castillo Dec 16 '13 at 07:33

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