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shinew
March 27th, 2009, 09:50 AM
For my 64-bit system with 8GB of RAM, do I still need a swap partition if I don't max out the memory usage? I would think that it's not needed, but I would like to be sure that it doesn't affect the system performance.

If I would like my system to be able to sleep or hibernate, what is the minimum RAM requirement in my case? thanks!

albandy
March 27th, 2009, 09:53 AM
If you want to hibernate you need at least 1.5 x Mem size