Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Swap size proportion | Date | Fri, 16 Apr 1999 18:11:13 -0400 | From | "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <> |
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In message <aBKR2.1816$t56.5221@sunsite.auc.dk>, "none" writes: +----- | What are the proportion of swap size for RAM size ? | ex. I have 128 mb RAM, what are the best size of my partiiion/file swap ? +--->8
There is no single answer. A very rough first approximation that works well in many settings is 1.5 * memory size --- but the "best" value depends on what you're doing with the system and what kind of load it gets. A dedicated NFS server, for instance, doesn't need much (if any) swap, whereas a database server with many users can need quite a bit of swap unless the database fits completely in memory.
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