<div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 9:52 AM, Rahul Tidke <<a href="mailto:rahul@excelize.com">rahul@excelize.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Hello, I am configuring a server with 3 GB of RAM; how much swap partition size should I allocate. I think allocating twice of RAM will be waste of HDD space. What is the standard. </blockquote><div> The double rule was created when computers had very little ram (< 512MB). If you intend to hibernate, then you need at least the same size of the ram. Otherwise, I think 1GB is good enough. But you can always use a file as a swap area. <a href="http://fcp.surfsite.org/modules/smartfaq/faq.php?faqid=502">http://fcp.surfsite.org/modules/smartfaq/faq.php?faqid=502</a> <a href="http://sanjaykatiyar1.blogspot.com/2007/08/create-swap-file-in-fedora-linux.html">http://sanjaykatiyar1.blogspot.com/2007/08/create-swap-file-in-fedora-linux.html</a> </div></div> -- Paulo Roma Cavalcanti LCG - UFRJ