On Monday, July 18, 2005 @ 10:02 AM, 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.
Bryan
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SuSE defaults to 1.5 RAM. I. e., if you have 1G of RAM on your machine, the default configuration that SuSE will give you will have 1.5G of RAM. I have also read elsewhere that this is the proper ratio. But, maybe that is a low end number and 2 times RAM is really better (?). Greg Wallace