Amount of Swap Partition for large RAM

[aliseghat]

swap,large RAM,Cpanle,directadmin

[aliseghat]

Hi.
I want to install cloudlinux with Cpanel Or maybe with Directadmin.
I maybe use 16GB or 24GB or 48GB RAM.
I want to know what size swap Partition must create?
(My server will be used for high traffic web hosting)
Thanks

[iseletsk]

Making swap too big makes little sense -- as once system starts to use swap, the performance degradation is immense.
Usually, making swap size of more then 4GB on a shared hosting server doesn benefit the system at all. Many people cap swap at 2GB total on web hosting servers.

Here is article on linux swap
http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-swap-space.html
That talks about it in more details.

[aliseghat]

thanks