On Tue, 2014-11-11 at 02:07 +0530, Sudhir Khanger wrote: > I don't think swap size has to be bigger than size of RAM. Arch Linux > has a good note on size of swap partition [1] which links to kernel > documentation[2]. I used to make 4GB of swap partition on a system > with 8GB of RAM on Arch Linux. It does if you want to suspend/hibernate to the swap space. Your RAM has to dump its contents somewhere, and that's where it goes. -- tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 3.16.7-200.fc20.i686 #1 SMP Thu Oct 30 18:40:30 UTC 2014 i686 All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point trying to privately email me, I will only read messages posted to the public lists. George Orwell's '1984' was supposed to be a warning against tyranny, not a set of instructions for supposedly democratic governments. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org