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SubjectRe: Is swap == 2 * RAM a permanent thing?
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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