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   Adam to Adam   
   Re: OT: Off-Topic   
   16 Jun 12 19:33:32   
   
   From: adam@address.invalid   
      
   Adam wrote:   
   > Bit Twister wrote:   
   >> I would go with disk swap by guessing you would hardly ever get into   
   >> it with that much ram. Unless you are setting system to be able to   
   >> suspend/resume operation. If so, you need swap to be size of ram + 1gig.   
   >   
   > Makes sense.  I can always change things later too.  Although it's a   
   > desktop system, my UPS configuration on my current (old) box is set to   
   > automatically go into hibernation when there's a longer outage, and   
   > automatically thaw when AC returns, so for that I would need swap to be   
   > maximum RAM + 1 GB = 33 GB.   
      
   Oops... I was thinking of the old formula of swap being 2 x RAM.  Max   
   RAM on the new system is 16 GB so 16 + 1 = 17 GB.   
      
   Adam   
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