Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2441 mails)
| < Previous | Next > |
Re: [SLE] How big of Swap file do you need?
- From: Ben Higginbottom <benh.suse@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2005 17:35:42 +0100
- Message-id: <1f3649f60506080935d400ca1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
On 6/8/05, BOB HERZOG <herzogb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I have a LSI Raid card with three 160 gb drives doing raid 5. The
> default swap is 1 gb do I need to up this default setting? What is the
> swap file used for?
>
How much RAM do you have? As a rule swap should be 2x you amount of RAM.
Swap is in effect a scratchpad for the filing system (similar to
pagefile.sys) and holds information being swapped between the memory
and the filesystem,
Regards,
Ben
> I have a LSI Raid card with three 160 gb drives doing raid 5. The
> default swap is 1 gb do I need to up this default setting? What is the
> swap file used for?
>
How much RAM do you have? As a rule swap should be 2x you amount of RAM.
Swap is in effect a scratchpad for the filing system (similar to
pagefile.sys) and holds information being swapped between the memory
and the filesystem,
Regards,
Ben
| < Previous | Next > |