Re: [Sheflug] /swap

[Barrie Bremner <nospam [at] barriebremner.com>]

>>>>> "Graham" == Graham Cox <ACA00GAC [at] sheffield.ac.uk> writes:

    Graham> I tend to make my swap partition the same size as my
    Graham> RAM. I can't think of a particular reason behind this, it
    Graham> just seems like a good idea to me -- Graham

Certainly with Kernel 2.4 the bar has been set a little higher -
recommendation is 2x RAM now.

Saying that:

  6:06pm  up 8 days, 39 min,  4 users,  load average: 2.05, 2.05, 2.01
74 processes: 71 sleeping, 3 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU0 states: 98.4% user,  1.2% system, 95.2% nice,  0.0% idle
CPU1 states: 94.4% user,  5.4% system, 91.0% nice,  0.0% idle
Mem:   384044K av,  382356K used, 1688K free, 0K shrd,40460K buff
Swap:  787104K av,       0K used, 787104K free 188044K cached

...you don't always need it :-)

Baz.


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