On Tue, 2014-11-11 at 02:07 +0530, Sudhir Khanger wrote:
I don't think swap size has to be bigger than size of RAM. Arch Linux has a good note on size of swap partition [1] which links to kernel documentation[2]. I used to make 4GB of swap partition on a system with 8GB of RAM on Arch Linux.
It does if you want to suspend/hibernate to the swap space. Your RAM has to dump its contents somewhere, and that's where it goes.