256MB should be more than enough for your needs. If you can spare the space
(hard drive space is cheap and plentiful nowadays), it doesn't hurt to have even
more than that (but I don't think it'll help either).
On Sun, 23 Dec 2001 01:04:16 -0600, Julian Opificius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:> The machine will be combined workstation (nothing really intenstive) and
> Samba server for three Win98/2000 stations - low usage.
>
> Should I match swap space to RAM, then?
>
> j.
> ===================
> At 05:15 PM 12/23/01 +1100, you wrote:
> >On Sat, 22 Dec 2001 23:30:12 -0600, Julian Opificius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >wrote:> Hi guys ....
> > >
> > > I'm stacking my new LM server with 512Meg of RAM (not to mention 80Gigs of
> > > HD). How much swap space should I set up?
> >
> >That really depends on what you're doing with the server. If it's
> >RAM-intensive,
> >like multimedia for example, or if you're serving many people at once,
> >then you
> >may need a lot of swap.
> >
> > > I think I heard somewhere that beyond about 128Meg or so of RAM, matching
> > > swap to RAM results in reduced performance.
> >
> >That hasn't been a problem since early 2.2-series kernels (a few years ago).
> >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > julian.
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