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Hi,

I just bought 4 servers with 4 gigs of ram, the documentation 
proposes to use 2 to 3 times the amount of ram for swap... I don't 
think 12 gigs of swap would be useful lol, but do I really need to 
put 4 gigs of ram. (It might be useful for kernel dump but...)

What do you guys do with swap space in this scenario ?

Thanks