# Server specs for multisite

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**Created:** [12.Июнь.2015 10:27:16 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/server-specs-for-multisite/29920 "2015-06-12T10:27:16Z")\
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If I’m not mistaken the recommended size for swap is always the RAM size. But hey, Google is my friend and I found this:

[http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/Partitioning\_guidelines](http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/Partitioning_guidelines)

From the _Swap space_ paragraph:

> Almost every Linux system will need swap space. The classic piece of advice is “swap should be double the amount of RAM you have”, though this is not a rigid guideline. Another guideline is to have at least 1x your RAM size, but this also isn’t a fixed, absolute requirement (this used to be necessary for linux, but not anymore for recent versions). It depends mainly on what applications you want to run. Applications like video/movie editing, 3d rendering, large image editing, database servers and web application servers can use a lot of memory and if you don’t have that as RAM, it will need a large swap space.

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