On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, Mu Florentino wrote:
> Hi Guys,
>
> Does the swapfile size need to be bigger than or equal to
> the amount of memory in the box?
not necessarily. IMHO, it shouldn't be even bigger.
>
> Can my swapfile be only 128Mb if i have 256Mb RAM?
> Do I have to increase my swapfile?
yes and no. On our moderately loaded unit, it barely even touches the
swap. Once it uses greater than 12 MBytes of swap (5% of our physical
memory) then we are compelled to put in more. Performance drops
considerably when the unit runs out of physical memory and have to use
swap. Good thing, 256MB modules are more reasonable now than two years
ago.
>
> What's the best ratio?
in the past, we use a swapspace 1.5 times the physical memory. Although
right now, on our units with 256 MB installed, we drop it to 1 or even .8
, just as a standard, no reason whatsoever.
IMHO, if you run out of memory, swap is not a substitue for adding more
physical memory.
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