| Date | Wed, 6 Jun 2001 09:28:20 -0600 | From | Richard Gooch <> | Subject | Re: Break 2.4 VM in five easy steps |
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Daniel Phillips writes: > On Wednesday 06 June 2001 10:54, Sean Hunter wrote: > > > > Did you try to put twice as much swap as you have RAM ? (e.g. add a > > > 512M swapfile to your box) > > > This is what Linus recommended for 2.4 (swap = 2 * RAM), saying > > > that anything less won't do any good: 2.4 overallocates swap even > > > if it doesn't use it all. So in your case you just have enough swap > > > to map your RAM, and nothing to really swap your apps. > > > > For large memory boxes, this is ridiculous. Should I have 8GB of > > swap?
Sure. It's cheap. If you don't mind slumming it, go and buy a 20 GB IDE drive for US$65. I know RAM has gotten a lot cheaper lately (US$66 for a 512 MiB PC133 DIMM), but it's still far more expensive. If you can afford 4 GiB of RAM, you can definately afford 8 GiB of swap.
> And laptops with big memories and small disks.
That's not that common, though. Usually you get far more disc than RAM on a laptop, just as with a desktop.
Regards,
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