I must agree. I have a K6-300 with 80MB RAM and I have seldom ever seen the
128MB Swap partition on my machine being used, but it is true if you plan on
having a number of people connecting to your machine that you might want to
consider more than one swap partition. The manual is correct for a machine
that is not being used by more than a few people, but if you machine is
going to be an Enterprise server, you should create multiple swap partitions
(more than 1).
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Ken Wilson
Sent: Friday, August 13, 1999 1:58 PM
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Subject: RE: [newbie] Adding more RAM
This is straight from the 'Linux-Mandrake Installation Guide', pg. 23
"In Linux, partitions of type swap cannot be bigger than 128 MB. If you
wish to use more swap, you should create several. Too much space allocated
to swap will always be useless. In general, it is considered that for a RAM
memory of less than 64MB, you should have 128MB of swap. For RAM memory
greater than 64MB, 80MB of swap is suficient."
I would add my own caveat to that. If you are planning on having a lot of
users and/or servers running, the swap may become important and you may want
a second swap partition. I did say a lot though. I am running with 128MB
of RAM and 128MB swap and I have seldom, if ever, seen the swap used. It
really only becomes necessary when you have a large number of processes
competing for the available memory and their load is sufficient to require
large amounts of paging in and out.
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jason Peterson
> Sent: Friday, August 13, 1999 10:33 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [newbie] Adding more RAM
>
>
> I have always heard the swap partition should be twice the size
> of the RAM,
> so here's my question. I'm going to add 64 MB to a system with a 128 MB
> swap and the initial 64 MB. Do I have to resize my swap, and if so what
> can I use to do it on the fly? Also, will I have to change any other
> system files? Thanks for any help.
>
> Jason Peterson
>
