depends what the machine is doing and how many disks you have, i for one never like to have more then 256MB of swap on any one disk.. more then that and the system can slow to a crawl(which is better then a crash....). Unless you got really really fast hdds. My desktop has 512MB of ram and 377MB of swap(usually i do 128MB of swap per disk ..and as i mentioned above, 256MB max) ..so if it were my machine i would have in the range of 700-800MB of swap.
but of course that depends on what the box will be doing. nate [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > a couple of days ago a was configuring a bunch of boxes with 1G ram > and i allocated 1G of swap, because my boss said so. a co-worker then > told me that the appropriate amount of swap to allocate should be > twice the ram. i really don't see the point of having the swap to be > twice the size of ram, especially since i have 1G of it. there must > be a point of diminishing return regarding swap allocation. is there > even a point of allocating swap on a system with 1G ram if so what's > the magic size? > > thanks > pd > > -- > > "As a general rule, if you have trouble > with the binary system, then probably it > is because you do not really understand > the decimal system ..." > R.W. Hamming > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ::: ICQ: 75132336 http://www.aphroland.org/ http://www.linuxpowered.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]