-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Sunday 2008-05-18 at 17:57 +0100, Richard (MQ) wrote:
Twice the size of RAM was common a rule of thumb a decade or so ago; these days we recommend at most the size of RAM.
Without wanting to get into a flame war, I'd quite agree that 1x is sensible on 'normal' systems with plenty of RAM. However, we're talking here specifically about a machine sporting 'only' 256M. I do a lot of installations on such low-end kit and would generally use 2x, I also often see (on such systems) swap usage > 50%, which I feel justifies it.
Then you can put as much swap as you want, without the slightest qualm. I have a system with 32 MiB of ram and about a GiB of swap O:-) The 2x size was typical of Windows 3.X because it was simply the maximum it tolerated, more was ignored. So it became the rule of thumb. In Linux there is no such limit. Of course, it will work faster with that much in ram rather than in swap, but when there isn't, there isn't. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFIMH4stTMYHG2NR9URAk9VAJ4lewSUXyuJ+WNkYm86HVj3Ga83FgCePmAv Sb2sbIWLucgdKPY9j2cBCnY= =M5gW -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org