Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Swap File sizes | From | (Gary L. Hennigan) | Date | 12 May 1999 16:41:32 -0600 |
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georgek@netwrx1.com (George R. Kasica) writes: | Quick swap file question here: | | Under 2.2.x what is recommended swap sizes? | | I'm running 384MB of RAM and as was pointed out yesterday making a | 768MB swap is a bit of overkill....I seem to remember that in the | "old" 1.x days the recommendation was to have swap 2x RAM | amount...what would you suggest for the above setup? I'm also running | a P-II 366MHz chip.
I don't think the swap space = 2 x RAM rule every applied to Linux, but there were certainly vendor Unices that suggested this. This requirement was often related to the fact that upon a kernel panic an image of your memory contents at the time of the panic was dumped to the swap partition for later diagnosis. Linux doesn't do this.
In fact, under Linux, with that much RAM, you don't need a swap file at all. Of course if you plan on running applications that take large amounts of RAM you might want some swap space. Or if you want the system to swap out idle applications you might want some.
The short of it is that it depends on what you use your system for and what the applications you run on it demand. There is no hard rule, under Linux, for swap space.
Gary
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