On 01 Mar 2002 09:42:48 +0800 William Kenworthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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. Although I haven't done it, (393 megs ram 64 shared for video and about a 2% average usage of the 256megs of swap available) You can set up a swap file in linux. It works simular to the swap file in windows and just like windows it's slower than a swap partition. It can however from what I'm told grow dynamically with your system. This might do what you are talking about. James > > 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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