On 12 Feb 2002, Jeff S Wheeler wrote: > For years I've been configuring my machines with "small" swap spaces, no > larger than 128MB in most cases, even though most of my systems have > 512MB - 1GB of memory. My desktop computer has zero swap, although I > have more ram than even X + gnome + mozilla + xemacs can use. :-)
I always learned: swap = mem x 2 and above 1 GB swap = mem x 1.5 Swap isn't only used by programs that run out of swap, but also core dumps could be bigger than youre memory. But maybe swapd is something to look at: http://cvs.linux.hr/swapd/ There's a Debian package for it. Greetings, Richard. ---- An OS is like swiss cheese, the bigger it is, the more holes you get!