Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4288 mails)

[Nate Pearlstein <npearl@xxxxxxx>]

Robert Lewis wrote:
> On 10/28/07, Thomas Hertweck <Thomas.Hertweck@xxxxxx> wrote:
>   
> > Robert Lewis wrote:
> >     
> > > I helped a friend install 10.3 64-bit on his Q6600
> > > machine that has 4-GB of ram yesterday.
> > > Wow was the installation fast.
> > >
> > > SUSE setup a 2-GB swap space by default.
> > >
> > > We over road that and made it 4-GB.
> > >       
> > Why?
> >
> > If you really need that much virtual memory, you should upgrade
> > your RAM. It doesn't make sense to have such huge swap partitions,
> > your system will be unusable if you need 4 GB swap (well, sort of
> > unusable). And if you really need it at some point, you can always
> > make a swap file which is almost as fast as a swap partition.
> >
> > If you want to use suspend to disk, then of course your swap space
> > should be large enough.
> >
> >     
> > > Is this a bug/oversite or on purpose?
> > >       
> > Why should it be a bug? The times when swap partitions had to be
> > as big (or bigger) as RAM size are long gone.
> >
> >     
> > > If on purpose what is the logic behind that?
> > >       
> > There's no need for huge swap partitions unless you want to use
> > suspend to disk. And that's unlikely for a machine that seems to
> > be used as a server.
> >
> > Th.
> > --
> >     
> The reason both of us did this is we came from a world in Linux where
> one always made swap the size of RAM or larger to allow for later
> ram expansion.  I agree swapping to a file is a good way to expand
> swap down stream.   How did SUSE decide to set it to 2-GB and why?
>
> Is there any harm doing what we did?
>   
Read what Russel Cocker has to say at this link:

http://etbe.coker.com.au/2007/09/28/swap-space/

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Nate Pearlstein - npearl@xxxxxxx - Product Support Engineer

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