On 04/26/2011 03:03 PM, Manish Kumar wrote:
It's no hard and fast rule that swap space should be 2xRAM size.
Thats partially true. The idea of 2x came from the linux-2.2 kernel
VM and how things were handled in those days ( and I suspect before then
); Having 2x actually made some of the swap
k this ID for months :)
~ManishYahoo!
--- On Mon, 4/25/11, Rakesh Kumar wrote:
From: Rakesh Kumar
Subject: Re: [ilugd] Question about SWAP and tempfs
To: "The Linux-Delhi mailing list"
Date: Monday, April 25, 2011, 2:37 PM
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On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 12:49 PM, Amit Sharma wrote:
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On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 12:49 PM, Amit Sharma wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Couple of questions:
>
> 1. SWAP partition must always be 2 x RAM? My machien has 48 GB RAM. I have
> to create 96GB SWAP partition? Isn't 4 GB or 8 GB good enough?
>
[...]
SWAP partition should be and not "must be" 2 x RAM. It'
On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 12:49 PM, Amit Sharma wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Couple of questions:
>
> 1. SWAP partition must always be 2 x RAM? My machien has 48 GB RAM. I have
> to create 96GB SWAP partition? Isn't 4 GB or 8 GB good enough?
>
2xRAM is not a hard rule, you can have any amount of swap space. I
Hi,
Couple of questions:
1. SWAP partition must always be 2 x RAM? My machien has 48 GB RAM. I have to
create 96GB SWAP partition? Isn't 4 GB or 8 GB good enough?
2. tempfs consumes half of RAM i.e. 24GB in my case as I have 48 GB of physical
RAM installed. Can I reduce it to say 8GB? Can
