Re: [Sheflug] /swap

[Guennadi Liakhovetski <nospam [at] ragingbull.com>]

On Sun, 13 May 2001, Will Newton wrote:

> On Sun, 13 May 2001, Harvey Kelly wrote:
> 
> > I know I'm going to get a number of different answers to this, but... is
> > there any kind of definitive amount for /swap?  I ask as my system ground
> 
> With kernel 2.4.x you want 2 x RAM. i.e. 64Mb RAM, 128Mb swap.
> It's the law.

Uhm... well, don't frighten people:-)) I wouldn't call it 'the law', and
the lkml falk don't seem to be doing so either... There was such a
recommendation as a general rule, but... If you have 512M mem it doesn't
mean that you MUST have a gig of swap:-) You most probably don't have
to. Except if you are running a BIG BUSY server... But then, again, you
might want to increase your RAM.

Guennadi
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Dr. Guennadi V. Liakhovetski
Department of Applied Mathematics
University of Sheffield, U.K.
email: G.Liakhovetski [at] sheffield.ac.uk


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