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man8alexd
21 hours ago
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jandrese
21 hours ago
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Oh, so that's where that old nugget of wisdom came from! I've heard the rule about making your swap at least 2x your RAM for ages and thought it was just some old rule of thumb from the 80s. I didn't know there used to be a legitimate reason for it.
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man8alexd
21 hours ago
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See this retrocomputing.SE question
https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/32492/ori...
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