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I created a 7.5Gb swap partition when I installed UBUNTU 12.04 on my 80 GB hard disk. My system runs with 512Mb RAM. I am not sure if this SWAP partition size is right. I also would like to know if the swap partition is being utilized by the operating system. Any suggestions?

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  • That's way too large. I'd suggest a 1GB swap partition.
    – mikewhatever
    Dec 6, 2013 at 6:31
  • One gigs is enough.
    – Sukupa91
    Dec 6, 2013 at 7:16

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To determine how much swap is used from the system type:

user@host:~# cat /proc/meminfo | grep Swap
SwapCached:            0 kB
SwapTotal:       2095100 kB
SwapFree:        2095100 kB
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  • I got it. However, isn't there a way to get this info in GUI itself instead of having to type these long commands in the terminal. Find it quite difficult to remember the command lines.
    – KSR
    Dec 6, 2013 at 23:55

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