| From | Daniel Phillips <> | Subject | Re: Break 2.4 VM in five easy steps | Date | Wed, 6 Jun 2001 13:16:30 +0200 |
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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?
And laptops with big memories and small disks.
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