On Mon, 2002-06-24 at 18:16, MonMotha wrote: > Make sure you asess your situations when setting up that much swap. > > If you're ever going to actually use that swap (in anything other than > an EXTREMELY dire circumstance...4GB is an awful lot to swap out if it's > actively being used), it might be better to just add more physical RAM. > > The 2x your RAM rule is usually only taken up to 512MB (for 1GB swap) > because after that, if all the swap were to ever actually be used, the > system would probably be mostly unusable as 4GB is just a lot of data to > have swapped out. > > I'm not saying don't use that much swap, but 4GB of swap is a WHOLE > LOTTA swap space, and if it ever actually needs to be used, your system > probably needs more physical RAM, and the disk space is going wasted. > > --MonMotha
Total agreement here. Think about the amount of data that the server deals with, or the number of concurrent users. Things like Oracle databases or LTSP servers should definitely stick to that 2x RAM rule, but for most other server jobs you will probably be okay with 2GB total of swap.
