Messages in this thread | | | From | "Matthew D. Pitts" <> | Subject | Re: Linux 2.4.19-pre3-ac1 | Date | Sun, 17 Mar 2002 18:52:51 -0500 |
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L-K developers,
What is the recomended amount of swap if you have a PC with 384 MB ram?
Matthew ----- Original Message ----- From: Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com> To: <MrChuoi@yahoo.com> Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org> Sent: Sunday, March 17, 2002 12:36 AM Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.19-pre3-ac1
> On Sat, Mar 16, 2002 at 08:58:11PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > > > SwapTotal: 65528 kB > > > SwapFree: 65528 kB > > > Committed_AS: 57252 kB > > > > Ok at this point you have 64Mb of free swap, and at worse (absolutely worst > > pure theory) have 57Mb committed > > > > > LowTotal: 126856 kB > > > SwapTotal: 65528 kB > > > SwapFree: 63324 kB > > > Committed_AS: 226160 kB > > > > So you have 128Mb of RAM, 64Mb of swap, and if all pages are touched you > > would need 226Mb of swap + ram (minus kernel overhead). Looks like the > > machine is hovering on the edge > > > > In Other Words (IOW), add more swap like everyone else said. > > The rmap design does use a bit more memory (about 400k for 128MB ram) for > the reverse mapping tables, so that could push you over into an OOM case. > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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