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tacomagick 14 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Stop making swap partitions—use swap files instead

Id always suggest at least 2-4G of swap even if you have plenty of memory 32g+ because for that rare edge case where you'd really not want to OOM.

ChocolateGod 14 days ago [–]

Yep. Swap + zswap + earlyoom is a great safety need incase things get hairy.

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