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I will be installing 8.1 on a Dell Poweredge 2850, with dual 3 GHz XEON
processors and 6GB RAM.  

 

What is the recommended swap space?  

 

I'm finding conflicting data on this.  Some say 0, some say 1 times RAM,
others say stay with 2 x RAM.

 

Thank you