Traditional *nix and BSD systems use swap partitions for crashdumps, so giant swap partitions made sense before those systems supported mini dumps. Admins tha

Traditional *nix and BSD systems use swap partitions for crashdumps, so giant swap partitions made sense before those systems supported mini dumps. Admins that grew up with those systems are used to the "2xram" rule of thumb. I just yesterday had to re-partition a FreeBSD kernel test box with 256GB of RAM and a 2GB swap partition because I desperately needed a crashdump and the mini dump would have been 7GB.