On Saturday 08 February 2003 11:24 am, Russ wrote: > Hi All, > > I understand that the swap partition should be about twice that of your > physical ram. I have 256megs and when I allow MD to partition itself, that > is the size of the swap partition it makes. Shouldn't it be 512? > > I seem to remember (from previous tries in the past) that there was an > issue of Linux not reading all the ram. There was a file that the person > was directed to and told to edit it to what his ram was. Does anyone out > there know what I am talking about? > The rule I follow is
2x RAM when physical RAM is 128MB or less; 1x RAM when physical RAM is 256MB but greater than 128; never a bigger swap than 256MB In monitoring, I have never had my swap usage get above 80MB when my physical RAM was 256MB. When I increased physical RAM to 512MB, I never use the swapfile at all, and I run a lot of stuff at the same time. Once you get past 256MB, you really don't put enough stuff in memory to require a swap file at all (for desktop use anyway). -- Gregory K. Meyer, CPA
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