Re: opinions on swap size and usage?

2002-02-12 Thread Donovan Baarda
On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 11:57:22AM -0500, Jeff S Wheeler wrote: [...] > I do this because I think if they need to swap that much, there is > probably Something Wrong, and all that disk access is just going to make > the machine unusable. May as well let it grind to a halt quickly than > drag it ou

Re: opinions on swap size and usage?

2002-02-12 Thread Donovan Baarda
On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 11:57:22AM -0500, Jeff S Wheeler wrote: [...] > I do this because I think if they need to swap that much, there is > probably Something Wrong, and all that disk access is just going to make > the machine unusable. May as well let it grind to a halt quickly than > drag it o

Re: opinions on swap size and usage?

2002-02-12 Thread Jean-Marc V. Liotier
On Tue, 2002-02-12 at 19:17, Richard Arends wrote: > On 12 Feb 2002, Jeff S Wheeler wrote: > > But maybe swapd is something to look at: http://cvs.linux.hr/swapd/ > There's a Debian package for it. I'm using it on my laptop. Works fine for me. A swap partition might be a tad faster than the swap f

Re: opinions on swap size and usage?

2002-02-12 Thread Richard Arends
On 12 Feb 2002, Jeff S Wheeler wrote: > For years I've been configuring my machines with "small" swap spaces, no > larger than 128MB in most cases, even though most of my systems have > 512MB - 1GB of memory. My desktop computer has zero swap, although I > have more ram than even X + gnome + mozi

Re: opinions on swap size and usage?

2002-02-12 Thread Pascal Bourguignon
> From: Jeff S Wheeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 12 Feb 2002 11:57:22 -0500 > > For years I've been configuring my machines with "small" swap spaces, no > larger than 128MB in most cases, even though most of my systems have > 512MB - 1GB of memory. My desktop computer has zero swap, although I

Re: opinions on swap size and usage?

2002-02-12 Thread Michael Merritt
On Tuesday 12 February 2002 10:57 am, Jeff S Wheeler wrote: > Alexis Bory's post earlier today made me think about swap a bit more > than I usually do. What do other folks on this list do? Zero swap? As > much swap as physical memory? More? Why? Can you change the swapper's > priority, and do

opinions on swap size and usage?

2002-02-12 Thread Jeff S Wheeler
For years I've been configuring my machines with "small" swap spaces, no larger than 128MB in most cases, even though most of my systems have 512MB - 1GB of memory. My desktop computer has zero swap, although I have more ram than even X + gnome + mozilla + xemacs can use. :-) I do this because I

Re: opinions on swap size and usage?

2002-02-12 Thread Jean-Marc V. Liotier
On Tue, 2002-02-12 at 19:17, Richard Arends wrote: > On 12 Feb 2002, Jeff S Wheeler wrote: > > But maybe swapd is something to look at: http://cvs.linux.hr/swapd/ > There's a Debian package for it. I'm using it on my laptop. Works fine for me. A swap partition might be a tad faster than the swap

Re: opinions on swap size and usage?

2002-02-12 Thread Richard Arends
On 12 Feb 2002, Jeff S Wheeler wrote: > For years I've been configuring my machines with "small" swap spaces, no > larger than 128MB in most cases, even though most of my systems have > 512MB - 1GB of memory. My desktop computer has zero swap, although I > have more ram than even X + gnome + moz

Re: opinions on swap size and usage?

2002-02-12 Thread Pascal Bourguignon
> From: Jeff S Wheeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 12 Feb 2002 11:57:22 -0500 > > For years I've been configuring my machines with "small" swap spaces, no > larger than 128MB in most cases, even though most of my systems have > 512MB - 1GB of memory. My desktop computer has zero swap, although

Re: opinions on swap size and usage?

2002-02-12 Thread Michael Merritt
On Tuesday 12 February 2002 10:57 am, Jeff S Wheeler wrote: > Alexis Bory's post earlier today made me think about swap a bit more > than I usually do. What do other folks on this list do? Zero swap? As > much swap as physical memory? More? Why? Can you change the swapper's > priority, and d

opinions on swap size and usage?

2002-02-12 Thread Jeff S Wheeler
For years I've been configuring my machines with "small" swap spaces, no larger than 128MB in most cases, even though most of my systems have 512MB - 1GB of memory. My desktop computer has zero swap, although I have more ram than even X + gnome + mozilla + xemacs can use. :-) I do this because I