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Linux users, how much swap do you use? (piefed.zip)
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[–] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 hours ago

I have 32GB of RAM which practically never runs out. I'm using a 16GB swap partition, but could've gotten away with much less. I think on the next install I'll just go with the same approach as I have at work servers: No swap partitions, swapon some files on the fly instead if I really need to.