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From: Anton Sayetsky <vsjcfm@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2014 19:35:56 +0300
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Subject: Re: [Bulk] How much swap space for a 32 GB RAM system?
To: Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@rocketmail.com>
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2014-07-22 19:30 GMT+03:00 Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@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.