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Ali Razmdideh
Asked: 2017-03-30 05:39:39 +0800 CST

a swap partition

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I was install ubuntu 16.04 with 'install ubuntu alongside windows' option that do anythings like Partitioning by default.

But when I check the swap partition size by swapon -s command, this output has been shown :

Filename                Type        Size    Used    Priority
/dev/sda8                               partition   58039292    0   -1

And here is my free -h command output :

              total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
Mem:            15G        982M         13G        130M        1.2G         14G
Swap:           60G          0B         60G

As you seen I have 16G ram and 60G swap partition. (and I have windows alongside ubuntu)

Is this normal to set 60G for swap partition ? (beacause it is much more than 2xram)

16.04

1 Answers

  1. 60GB is way too much swap. If you have 16 gigs of RAM you probably don't need a swap partition anyway, but generally having as much swap as you have ram is good if you have 8 gigs or less of RAM.

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