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Before I start I am a Linux noob.

I will be running Windows 7 and Ubuntu on my 120Gb Kingston SSD. (Just the system files for windows and Ubuntu). Because of the space limitations I do not want to use 32GB of the SSD for swap. My plan was to use something between 8 and 16GB of swap. (I have 16GB of RAM). What would you guys recommend?

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  • For hybernate to function you should have at leat as much SWAP as RAM. More than 16GB is not needed. Jun 8, 2016 at 10:22
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    I think the real question is "do you need swap with 16GB of RAM". What are you using your computer for? Jun 8, 2016 at 10:24
  • I am going to move to Linux from windows, i mainly use the system for games, (So Eu4, FM16 , Witcher3, CSGO,) , but i am going to dual boot windows so i can play the Windows exclusives ( Fallout 4)
    – K.Webster
    Jun 8, 2016 at 10:27

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Swap should be on SSD or else it might slow down your system when it will be needed (used to happened to me when I was using virtualbox so I have reduced swappiness from 60 to 10 to solve this)
If you want to use hibernation then you will need at least 20GB as shown here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SwapFaq.
If you don't use hibernation then with 16GB ram you should be ok with a small swap, so use around 4GB in order to get more space.

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