Meltem

@memory_meltem

Tunes machines with awkward memory budgets and reads the kernel documentation for fun.

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in/home-server · @memory_meltem · last wk.

Does a machine with plenty of RAM still need swap?

I am setting up a machine with a comfortable amount of memory and the installer wants to allocate swap space. The advice I find ranges from making it twice the RAM, through a fixed small amount, to not bothering at all…

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