On Wed, 3 Oct 2001 08:28:30 +0300, "Yuriy Temnyuk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have 256 Mb phisical memory, what size of Swap I must create? > > Thank, > Yuriy
The general rule-of-thumb is to have a swap size of 2x RAM. However, you typically won't gain much by having over 200MB of swap. If you need to use this much swap, your hard drive would be thrashing like crazy and your system would slow to a crawl. In this case, you should really look into buying more RAM (assuming that the problem hasn't been caused by buggy software). Excess RAM is not wasted in Linux, since it uses the surplus for hard drive caching. Of course, there are exceptions. For example, servers often require large volumes of swap space, as do serious software/graphical/multimedia development workstations. For the average desktop system, however, a maximum of 200MB is plenty. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan "Technically, Windows is an 'operating system,' which means that it supplies your computer with the basic commands that it needs to suddenly, with no warning whatsoever, stop operating." -- Dave Barry
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