Messages in this thread | | | From | (H. Peter Anvin) | Subject | Re: Swap area: why not more than 128M each? | Date | 13 Mar 1998 21:02:08 GMT |
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Followup to: <19980313204039.63413@lucifer.guardian.no> By author: Alexander Kjeldaas <astor@guardian.no> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > Not that I'm against large swapfiles or anything, but with 1GB+ of > memory, putting 4GB of swap on one disk is not a good idea. On those > systems you need to spread the swap on lots of disks to get reasonable > swap-bandwidth/memory. >
Depends on what you're doing. Some people use swap mostly for "parking" processes in T state, as can happen if you're using LSF (a commercial load-distribution system), for example. It can eat up a *lot* of swap in no time.
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