swap size with 32GB ram and SSD

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wolverine96

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I am installing Arch Linux on my system, and I was simply wondering how big I should make my swap partition. I have 32GB of RAM and a 256GB SSD. I know I will never max out my RAM, so the only time I would ever use the swap partition would be if I was hibernating the computer.

I am thinking of using 4GB or so. Does this sound okay, or should I just skip the whole swap partition altogether?

Thanks in advance for your time!
 
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ex_bubblehead
I wouldn't disable paging altogether but 1-2GB just in case wouldn't be a bad idea. I run Gentoo on 8GB with a 4GB swap partition and rarely use more than1.5GB of it when compiling LibreOffice.
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Okay, thanks. I will keep Gummiboot in mind, but I hope to be able to stick with GRUB.

Could the problem be my ESP partition being too small? It is 512MiB, which is the minimum, according to the guide. I will try a complete re-install for now.
 
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Yes!

I am now greeted with a sleek and rather stealthy black screen with a white login prompt. I missed a couple of things in the manual, and I had incorrectly mounted the EFI partition.

Thank you, ex_bubblehead and skittle!
 
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