On Mon, 2011-07-04 at 13:35 +0800, Cui, Dexuan wrote: > In meta/recipes-core/initrdscripts/files/init-install.sh, we have > > # 5% for the swap > swap_ratio=5 # dexuan: this variable is not used at all! > ... > swap_size=$((disk_size*5/100)) > > This algorithm seems too wasty -- e.g., for a CrownBay box with a 160GB disk, > we would create a 8GB swap partition while the box has only 1GB memory. > > What's the proper swap size? > This link http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-swap-space.html discussed this > and I think the below algorithm seems suitable for us: > > Systems with 2GB of ram or less require the same size of swap space > Systems with 2GB to 4GB of ram require a minimum of 2GB of swap space > Systems with 4GB to 16GB of ram require a minimum of 4GB of swap space > Systems with 16GB to 64GB of ram require a minimum of 8GB of swap space > Systems with 64GB to 256GB of ram require a minimum of 16GB of swap space > > Any comment?
Looks like a much better idea to me, I'll take patches :) For reference if you want to do suspend to disk (swap) you need a lot of swap space btw. Still no where near that much though! Cheers, Richard _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
