On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 19:07 -0700, John R Pierce wrote:
Stephen Harris wrote:
In older BSD systems (eg around SunOS 4 times or before) swap space was
utilised oddly; all memory was allocated from swap, so you needed _at
least_ physmem of swap just to use all your real memory! So if you
Stephen Harris wrote:
Swap should equal 2x physical RAM for up to 2 GB of physical RAM, and
then an additional 1x physical RAM for any amount above 2 GB, but never
less than 32 MB.
That's a silly recommendation, and never been true for Linux. RedHat
don't always know what they're talking
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 08:29:43 -0700
From: Scott Silva [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Wrote:
Even though the recommended swap is 2 times system memory, I have
never made a swap partition over 2 GB. Maybe I am also flirting
with disaster, but haven't been bit yet in years.
I believe that the current
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 09:56:34AM -0400, James B. Byrne wrote:
I believe that the current recommendation is 2 x physical memory up to 2
GB and then 1 x physical memory thereafter.
See:
http://www.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5.2/html/Deployment_Guide/s1-swap-what-is.html
Stephen Harris wrote:
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 09:56:34AM -0400, James B. Byrne wrote:
I believe that the current recommendation is 2 x physical memory up to 2
GB and then 1 x physical memory thereafter.
See:
Stephen Harris wrote:
In older BSD systems (eg around SunOS 4 times or before) swap space was
utilised oddly; all memory was allocated from swap, so you needed _at
least_ physmem of swap just to use all your real memory! So if you
added physmem of swap then your total virtual memory size was
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