On Tue, Feb 28, 2023 at 1:43 PM Ranjan Maitra <mlmai...@gmx.com> wrote:
> Hi, > > I am trying to install Fedora on to a new machine that has 0.5 TB RAM. > Hard drives are 256 GB for / and friends, and 2 TB for /home partition. In > the past, it used to be suggested that swap be twice that of RAM: this > later changed to the same amount, and now it is very unclear (to me) > because I have not tracked the latest recommendations. Anyway, what would > you suggest? The machine is a Dell Precision 7920 with 28 cores/56 threads. > By 0.5TB you mean 512GB of ram? Assuming you're installing Fedora 36 or 37, I would just leave the defaults alone, which utilizes swap on zram. So basically it won't use any swap unless needed. You can adjust the amount of memory allowed to be used for swap. Thanks, Richard
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