On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 14:01, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > On Wednesday 08 October 2003 03:31 pm, Jack Coates wrote: > > On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 12:19, Norman Zhang wrote: > > > ... > > > So it is a good practice to setup multiple swap partitions on different > > > drives. LM knows how make best use of it? > > > > > > Regards, > > > Norman > > > > yes > > Hmm, I thought (referring to an earlier part) that the "twice as big as > physical ram" rule of thumb only went up to x size, say about 400-500 megs or > so? I thought it was wasteful (short of doing video editing or something > rather intensive like that) to say, have a gig of mem and make a 2 gig swap > out of HD space. > > Or did I dream that? > > I've got 512m of ram now - I just don't think I need 1 gig of swap space. > > Anyways, somebody enlighten us. :-)
a) rules of thumb are always at least a little wrong b) is it wasteful if you only use it every few months? How about once a year? In all honesty, I hardly ever touch swap; it's my safety net for runaway processes and the occassional heavy-duty Gimp-ing. If I see the swap meter on gkrellm moving, I immediately open a terminal and sudo top, cause something needs killing :-) All that goes out the window if your work pattern does rely on swap (e.g. a graphic designer, or anyone using Gentoo). In that case, I'd say devoting two or three percent of the disk space to swap is no big deal. -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture...
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