Hello, On Thu, 14 Dec 2017, John Andersen wrote:
On December 14, 2017 8:48:46 AM PST, James Knott <james.knott@rogers.com> wrote:
On 12/14/2017 11:34 AM, Richard Brown wrote:
IIRC the official openSUSE recommended sizing of swap is 2x RAM-size, but no larger than 2GB, unless you want Hibernation, in which case it is 2GB or 1x RAM-size, whichever is the larger
Care to provide a link for that? While it may have been the case with *nix systems years ago, I don't think it applies any more.
I recall having more swap than ram was recommended to allow hibernate without having to first repatriate swapped out stuff.
I don't recall it ever being 2xRam.
That was when RAM was measured in MB, not GB ... Actually, the recommendation was: "AT LEAST 2*RAM". I've basically been using 2GiB swap since I use Linux and that was when i IIRC 128MB RAM. Then 256MB? Then 768MB. Then 2GB. Now 4GB. Ok, maybe with 128MB I used just 1 GB swap. It's been almost 20 years... And BTW: the largest performance boost was the 128(->256?)->768MB jump. That was the first time when Linux had about half the RAM for buffers/caches... And with 4 GB I only run into memory limits when compiling really memory hungry stuff and gcc claims ~4GB. $ free total used free shared buff/cache available Mem: 4053224 2852404 109656 190744 1091164 756524 Swap: 2092756 1378280 714476 And that's after compiling some hefty stuff (pushing unused stuff out to swap) and running 2 large java apps (plus a mozilla or two). -dnh -- It would have been better for source code control to post our source code to comp.sources.unix and retrieve the versions using groups.google.com than to put it into that bletcherous piece of crap. -- Paul Tomblin on Visual Source Safe -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org