> (Follow up question as for swap sizing: In the age of 32+ GB RAM, do > you people really follow the recommendations on having swap at least > twice the amount of RAM? I'm hoping for 72GB RAM and that would steal > 144GB of my 525GB disks, something that seems ridiculous.)
That advice is ridiculous for such a machine, yes. Depending on if you want to have a full crash dump done to swap and/or hibernate to swap, you might be forced to have it at RAM-size plus some extra, but for the ordinary run of the machine it should not be needed to have a large swap at all, unless you run 40+G worth of applications all the time. If you did have 72G swap and actually used half of it, waiting for a normal drive to un-swap that amount would be sad and boring. -- May the most significant bit of your life be positive.
