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1. What is Swap? Swap file systems support virtual memory, data is written to a swap file system when there is not enough RAM to store the data your system is processing. 2. Swap partition size 2.1. Old rule of thumb swap: 2 * the-amount-of-RAM So if a computer had 64KB of RAM, a swap partition of 128KB would be an optimum size. This rule took into the facts that RAM sizes were typically quite small at the time....