Gn2 is also right.Gn2 wrote:That ONLY occurs if physcial RAM is insufficient and tasks are VERY memory intensive.
Maybe you heard something else and you wrongly interpreted the other way arround
Regarding the size of the partition:
If you NEED a large swap partition you'll most likelly experience a lot of trashing.
that is different than
If you HAVE a large swap ...
Regarding the multiple swap partitions
Maybe you heard that if you have multiple swap partitions in DIFFERENT HDDs you may get better swap performance.
If you create multiple swap partitions, the situation can only degrade as fragmented files take longer to retrieve than files that are in a continious space.