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Swap space is a method by which an operating system can move information out of memory and store it elsewhere until it is needed again. Swap space can generally be thought of an extension of the computer's memory which lives on the hard drive. In the past, having swap space was important as computers had relatively little memory and could quickly run out of available RAM. Unused data could be punted to swap while more urgent tasks were handled in memory. These days though computers tend to have a lot of memory and it raises the question of whether there is any point in having swap space anymore and, if so, how much?
I run my personal systems with eight GB of memory. It is cheap - why not. I normally don't need swap for routine tasks. However I like to hibernate my systems when I am in the middle of a project so I can pick things up the next day where I previously finished. Swapping out everything is very handy for that. I normally run a swap space of 1.5 times my system memory. For an eight GB system that is twelve to thirteen GB of swap. I have never had problems with that. Besides disk space is even cheaper than memory.
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