Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Size of swap area | From | Benny Amorsen <> | Date | 04 Oct 1997 19:05:58 +0200 |
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>>>>> "greg" == greg <greg@maniac.netset.com> writes:
greg> Better watch it there. Wasn't it Gates who once said, "Who'd greg> need more that 640K of memory?" :)
greg> If Linux is ever to be considered a player in the upper-midrange greg> market then eventually having a single 2+GB swap partition would greg> be very useful. As an example, all machines I admin at work have greg> 4GB to 16GB swap partitions (over a striped RAID5, of course). greg> Not so much for swapping but for savecores & crash analysis.
It is not that useful to have that large amounts of swap as long as processes are limited to 32-bit addressing space. It could be very useful on 64-bit ports -- do those ports have the same limit?
However, I think it is reasonable to support >128M swap in one area. I usually configure our servers with 250MB of swap space, and those servers are by no means high-end.
Benny Amorsen
Scandinavian Security Center
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