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Am I having too much swap space if my server is a 8GB physical ram and I would like to set my swap to 16GB. I am planning to use this server for shared hosting would like know.

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Best practices say you should have some swap, but if you're using a lot of swap, it's highly likely that you have under-provisioned RAM on your system. I tend to never devote more than 2GB of swap to a system, regardless of the amount of physical RAM available.

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  • The downside to this in the Windows world (yeah the question is linux based) is that a full memory dump isn't possible if you do this.
    – TheCleaner
    Jun 6, 2013 at 21:52
  • @TheCleaner The same is (generally) true in the Unix world as well -- crash dumps are written to swap if the system panics. Of course if you're having kernel panics you've probably got bigger problems than how big your swap partition is...
    – voretaq7
    Jun 7, 2013 at 2:30

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