> afasik, Linux simply takes all the area that you define as swap
> thereby putting less load on the physical RAM. and I guess it is also
> true that we need at least twice the amount of RAM for swap space.
> I've 128 MB RAM and hence I'd give 250 MB swap.
There is no such funda as "less load on the RAM". Whatever is being
executed is always on the RAM (although, maybe, a part of the whole
program)
And the swap space should be twice that of RAM, alright. But that's just a
recommendation. It could be zero.
> > Also are you sure linux supports swap partitions greater than 128MB?
> > You can have more than one swap partition but not larger than 128MB.
Well, I'm not sure about the limit (I'll let you know if I come across
that), but we do have a Linux machine with 512 MB RAM and 1 GB swap.
That's our FTP server.
So, that does work. ;-)
(How can you under-estimate Linux!? ;-)
Maybe, someone familiar with the kernel may throw more light!
regards,
jaju
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