This is why they went on to say it doesn’t make sense with modern RAM sizes. I remember when I first came across this rule when getting into Linux for the firs

This is why they went on to say it doesn’t make sense with modern RAM sizes. I remember when I first came across this rule when getting into Linux for the first time. If memory serves, I had 256MB of RAM, so I set swap for 512MB, which seems perfectly cromulent.