Messages in this thread | | | From | (Linus Torvalds) | Subject | Re: Recommended swap for 2.4.x. | Date | 29 Jan 2001 15:04:14 -0800 |
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In article <Pine.LNX.4.10.10101291452120.31258-100000@clueserver.org>, Alan Olsen <alan@clueserver.org> wrote: > >What is the recommended amount of swap with the 2.4.x kernels? > >The standard rule is usually memory x 2. (But that is more a Solaris >superstition than anything else.)
"memory x 2" is probably a good rule. With normal usage patterns, at the point you fully use up your swap, you _want_ the system to start killing things off due to out-of-memory errors.
But there really is no "fixed" rule: it can depend a lot on your usage patterns. Some people have a lot of big background processes that don't have a big active footprint but that have a lot of "idle" pages that can successfully be swapped out - using up tons of swap-space without actually causing any bad behaviour.
And you might end up adding more memory..
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