There are two types of swap in Linux. The one everyone knows is the swap partition. But you can also have a file based swap. And while you are limited to one partition based swap, you can have many file based swaps.
However, that being said, swap is a poor substitute for ram on a Linux based system. If you need to run programs by swapping to disk, your performance will suck. Windows handles this much more elegantly than Linux does. Of you are afraid you won't have enough ram, add memory, or re-evaluate what you are running.
Kevin
On 2014-07-15 14:23, Sesso wrote:
No, the rule is usually to have half as much swap as your ram.
Unless you're using the vanilla kernel's suspend-to-disk feature. If you're using that, then your swap partition size should be roughly equal to your RAM size. Yes, the RAM image can be and often is compressed, but just in case you've got a RAM dump that doesn't compress well....
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