Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: 2.4 and 2GB swap partition limit | Date | Sat, 28 Apr 2001 16:11:47 +0200 (MEST) | From | (Rogier Wolff) |
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Wakko Warner wrote: > > So you've spent almost $200 for RAM, and refuse to spend $4 for 1Gb of > > swap space. Fine with me.
> I put this much ram into the system to keep from having swap. I > still say swap=2x ram is a stupid idea. I fail to see the logic in > that. Disk is much much slower than ram and if you're writing all > ram to disk that's also slow.
> I have a machine with 256mb of ram and no disk. It runs just fine > w/o swap. Only reason I even had swap here is if I ran something > that used up all my memory and it has happened.
> Since when has linux started to be like windows "our way or no way"?
I've ALWAYS said that it's a rule-of-thumb. This means that if you have a good argument to do it differently, you should surely do so!
I maintain a 32M machine without swap. My workstation has 768Mb RAM and almost 2G swap:
/home/wolff> free total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 770872 766724 4148 0 259816 78308 -/+ buffers/cache: 428600 342272 Swap: 1843212 1840 1841372 /home/wolff>
That disk space is just sitting there. Never to be used. I spent $400 on the RAM, and I'm now reserving about $8 worth of disk space for swap. I think that the $8 is well worth it. It keeps my machine functional a while longer should something go haywire... As I said: If you don't want to see it that way: Fine with me.
Roger.
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