Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 15 Mar 2001 16:23:46 +0100 (CET) | From | Ketil Froyn <> | Subject | Re: Is swap == 2 * RAM a permanent thing? |
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On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, Mike A. Harris wrote:
> Is the fact that we're supposed to use double the RAM size as > swap a permanent thing or a temporary annoyance that will get > tweaked/fixed in the future at some point during 2.4.x perhaps?
You're not supposed to do anything, that's just a general rule of thumb. If your system hardly ever swaps, use a swapfile, because speed doesn't matter a lot anyway.
> Would it be better to make part of RAM a ramdisk and swap to > that?
No, don't do that. Physical memory is better than swap. Swap is a backup for physical memory, so that you can run programs that use more memory than you have. You don't really *need* swap, linux works fine without.
Ketil
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