07-20-2016
Q1) Problem: the swap would trash the filesystem!
BTW my personal thumb formula is: swap-GB = 4 x SQRT(RAM-GB)
Q2) No, can be any size.
Q3) The larger the used swap, the lower is the paging to/from the swap. The unused swap does not matter for performance (but is wasted disk space).
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