2 Sep
2003
2 Sep
'03
19:54
The 03.09.02 at 11:23, Michael.James@csiro.au wrote:
I read somewhere that the 2.4 kernel works better with swap at least 2 times the physical ram.
Could be. I don't think there is a real, clear rule that specifies how much swap is needed; at least, I haven't seen it. If you have 1Gbyte of ram, you could get away with no swap at all, or very little - except if you use big databases, for example.
That said, I want to make a diskless fanless silent workstation (netbooting) so I won't have anything to swap onto. If I just bung in a Gig of ram...?
Depends on what you will be running on it. I don't think you can run swap from the network... But I suppose that RAM should be enough. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson