on Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 11:40:50AM -0800, Tristan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > i am somewhat a newbie to linux, and have a question about the swap space > i configured when i installed debian. > I have read that i should set aside as much space as I have RAM (currently > 96Mb), but even when i have many different programs running and or most of > my memory is being used hardly any space is being used on my swap > (according to top).
My own rule of thumb is typicall swap = 2-3 x physical RAM. I'm currently running light by that standard, but I've just boosted my box from 96 MB to 256 MB, which is pretty generous for my needs, giving a swap:RAM ratio of 1.57. VA Linux routinely ships its boxes with a 1:1 swap:RAM ratio, but they also tend to run 1-4 GB RAM in their servers. For lower end boxes with less memory, I'd scale the multiplier higher. total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 257828 234060 23768 79560 42284 105148 -/+ buffers/cache: 86628 171200 Swap: 403772 9728 394044 -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://www.netcom.com/~kmself Evangelist, Zelerate, Inc. http://www.zelerate.org What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org
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