On Monday 18 July 2005 2:02 pm, Bryan Tyson wrote:
On Monday 18 July 2005 13:20, Per Jessen wrote:
But 900Mb swap for a machine with 128Mb is overkill. There is a rule of thumb, but I can't remember what it is
The rule of thumb is make swap twice the size of actual ram, for example if you have 128 MB RAM make your swap 256.
In my case I stopped the doubling rule once I hit 512. In other words with 512 RAM and above I am using 512 swap. It seems to work fine. However numerous people have told me they are still doubling with high amounts of RAM, for example 1 GB RAM and 2 GB swap. These people also seem to be happy with how their systems are working. For the most part, your strategy seems to hold. Generally, 512M should be sufficient except in some very extreme cases. -- Jerry Feldman <gaf@blu.org> Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9