Usually it should be equal to your RAM which makes it 2GB which should be enough for day to day applications. I think a rule said – for 1 gb or less of RAM swap must be the double of the RAM. – more than 1 gb you dont need to use more than 2 gb of swap. Swap area can be seen as a virtual ram for your Linux System.
One question we ran across in our research was “What is the ideal SWAP Size for Linux?”.
Different people have a different opinion on ideal swap size. Even the major Linux distributions don’t have the same swap size guideline. If you go by Red Hat’s suggestion, they recommend a swap size of 20% of RAM for modern systems (i. e. 4GB or higher RAM).
How much RAM do I need for Linux swap partition?
If you go by Red Hat’s suggestion, they recommend a swap size of 20% of RAM for modern systems (i. e. 4GB or higher RAM)., cent OS has a different recommendation for the swap partition size. It suggests swap size to be: Twice the size of RAM if RAM is less than 2 GB.
Also, what size swap should I use for my Ram?
If RAM is less than 1 GB, swap size should be at least the size of RAM and at most double the size of RAM. If RAM is more than 1 GB, swap size should be at least equal to the square root of the RAM size and at most double the size of RAM. If hibernation is used, swap size should be equal to size of RAM plus the square root of the RAM size.
What is the default swap partition size for Ubuntu Linux?
Linux distributions typically use the size of your RAM to help decide the size of your swap partition. When installing Ubuntu, the typical default swap partition size seems to be the size of your RAM plus an additional half a GB or so.
One of the next things we wondered was, what is the size of the swap partition?
The size of the swap partition depends on how much RAM your laptop has. If you have 4GB of RAM, a 2GB swap partition should be enough. You can then have 58GB for the system partition and 2 gb for the swap partition. I was thinking for safety if I screw something up.
What is swap space in Linux?
Swap area can be seen as a virtual ram for your Linux System. It is basically used when the physical memory (RAM) is full. And if the system needs more memory resources, then the inactive pages in memory are moved to the swap space. Generally, swap should be half the size of the physical memory. 2GB is enough size for the swap if the RAM is 4GB.
What are the different partition sizes in Linux?
Note : Swap Space behaves like an extra R. When the R., and is full.