The Sunday 2005-03-06 at 18:17 -0800, John Sowden wrote:
Actually, I thought this was a great question that only one person came close to answering. Is there a defined set of tradeoffs when expanding the swap size, in relation to RAM, taking into consideration CPU speed and possibly other variables that I am not aware of. If, instead of using the 2X rule for sizing a swap partition,
That 2X rule was for windows, it does not apply here. In Linux, it is very empiric.
we went to a 4X or 6X size, would the paging overhead not justify the expanded swap size, in terms of increasing performance?
The performance would depend on what applications are involved. If swapping occurs too often, processing is slow and you need more RAM memory. If you only need a huge memory now and then, it may make more sense to increase swap. It depends on each case. As I mentioned, I have one computer with a 24X relation... -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson