Ron Cordell wrote:
Hi all,
I am putting more RAM in my machine and probably need to increase the swap size as a result. Is that a valid assumption - that I need to increase the size of the swap partition/slice if I put in more RAM?
I am going from 256MB to 768MB. The size of the swap partition is currently 128MB.
In the old days when RAM in a computer was the exception <grin> there was a rule of thump to have the double amount of swap compared to RAM. This is crap these days. I run 384 MB, my uptime is: brauki@marvin:/home/brauki > uptime 9:37pm up 88 days, 22:53, 6 users, load average: 0.17, 0.10, 0.02 brauki@marvin:/home/brauki > Top tells me: 9:38pm up 88 days, 22:53, 6 users, load average: 0.22, 0.11, 0.03 93 processes: 92 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped CPU states: 2.3% user, 3.6% system, 0.0% nice, 94.0% idle Mem: 392804K av, 387024K used, 5780K free, 0K shrd, 231228K buff Swap: 263048K av, 2084K used, 260964K free 48884K cached The amount of swap needed hasn't increased in month. Ruke of thumb these days is: get as much memory as you can sensibly afford and *DON'T* set swap to zero, how much you ever purchase. I wouldn't increase swap in your case. If you realy do need it ("top" "xosview" showing that you run much shorter than me ;-)) think again. Juergen -- =========================================== __ _ Juergen Braukmann juergen.braukmann@gmx.de| -o)/ / (_)__ __ ____ __ Tel: 0201-743648 dk4jb@db0qs.#nrw.deu.eu | /\\ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / ===========================================_\_v __/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\