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SubjectRe: Static Swap
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In message <Pine.LNX.4.04.9904131205500.13739-100000@ps.cus.umist.ac.uk>, Riley
Williams writes:
+-----
| There's a common misconception that the swap space one needs is
| exactly proportional to the amount of RAM one has, and this looks like
| a classic example of that...
|
| Can I state FROM EXPERIENCE that the so-called rule that swap space
| should be 1.5 times RAM size is BOGUS!!! Some systems need much more,
| others run happily on much less...
+--->8

It's not a rule, it's a general guideline for if you don't know how much swap
you want. It's expected that as people gain experience with setting up and
running Linux systems, they'll figure out the best swap allocation strategy
for their systems; the amount of swap required depends on both applications
and usage patterns, and there is no such thing as a hard and fast rule or
formula to determine swap space.

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system administrator [WAY too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu
carnegie mellon / electrical and computer engineering KF8NH
We are Linux. Resistance is an indication that you missed the point.

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