Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: 2.4 and 2GB swap partition limit | Date | Fri, 27 Apr 2001 13:13:39 +0200 (MEST) | From | (Rogier Wolff) |
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Xavier Bestel wrote: [Charset ISO-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] > Le 08 Mar 2001 14:05:25 +0100, Goswin Brederlow a _crit : > > > I believe the 2xRAM rule comes from the OS's where ram was only buffer > > for the swap. So with 1xRAM you had a running system with 1xRAM > > memory, so nothing is gained by that much swap. > > I think kernels 2.4.x came back to this behavior. > > > On Linux any swap adds to the memory pool, so 1xRAM would be > > equivalent to 2xRAM with the old old OS's. > > no more true AFAIK
I've always been trying to convice people that 2x RAM remains a good rule-of-thumb.
Rogier.
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