On Thursday 28 July 2005 9:19 am, Greg Wallace wrote:
Windows XP will not let you allocate a swap file (pagefile.sys) that is greater than 1.5 times your RAM. Not sure if that is pertinent to Linux, but I just wanted to point it out. I personally use the 1.5 number and, if you let Linux compute the size of your swap space, at installation, it wants to allocate roughly that amount, though it seems to be just a little bit less than 1.5 times RAM. The 2x rule of thumb has been around a long time from the days when we measured memory in K and not M or G. It comes down to how you intend to use your system. For the most part, a swap of 512M should be sufficient for most home systems, but it does not hurt to allocate more. Both RAM and disk are relatively inexpensive today. A large amount of swap space is really only necessary if you have an application that uses a large amount of data. -- Jerry Feldman
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