I have 256 ram and 512 swap - and regularly run out of space (single user processing largish files at times), resorting to additional swap files as a temporary solution.! Just upgraded to 512mram and find that files that would send the swap over top now hardly effect it - ram must be more efficient! However, next time I will go for 1g swap - if disk space is not a priority, go for the max and you dont get stuck with a system you have to reformat when real use patterns change. The system still ran - sort of - when the swap filled, but its not something you want to plan on doing. What is really needed is a dynamic swap file for overloads, but I have never heard of this for linux.
BillK On Fri, 2002-03-01 at 09:27, Brian Parish wrote: > Unless you are planning on running a LOT of very memory hungry apps > simultaneously, 1GB of swap would be overkill. I know the 2xRAM formula > still finds favor, but this isn't true as far as I can see for machines > with this much RAM. I am running with 512 MB RAM and I've never managed > to make my machine use more than a small fraction of the 256MB swap > allocated. So, unless you have 10 Gimp users or something, 512MB would > seem like more than enough.
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