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Re:Tired of explaining Linux's seemingly obtuse memory usage... by requinot59 on Tuesday February 01, 2011 @02:55PM (#2167056)
> "twice the RAM is the recommended size of your swap file"

Don't listen the parrots that repeat something that ceases to be true at least 10 years ago. Swap used to be a useful hack, it is not anymore.

> as if I'm going to wait for even 200MB of swap to fill up before flipping out and killing the offending process

Well said ;-)

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