Re: [luv-main] Can you have too much swap?

Leigh Sharpe <leigh.sharpe@gmail.com> wrote:

So, if I set up 8GB of swap, expecting that I'll eventually have 4GB of RAM, is having too much swap going to be a problem in the meantime?

I don't think so.

Is there a downside to having a large amount of swap?

No, but of course your system will slow down substantially if you use a lot of virtual memory and it has to rely on swap space heavily. An alternative would be to configure swap files rather than swap partitions, allowing you to adjust the size as you wish.