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Origin of the rule that swap size should be 2x of the physical memory

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Origin of the rule that swap size should be 2x of the physical memory

I can trace this recommendation that swap should be twice the size of the physical memory as far back as 1989, see SunOS 4 installation manual, page 37, but I wonder if there was ever any technical

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