Re: [ilugd] Question about SWAP and tempfs

2011-04-26 Thread Manish Kumar
:) ~ManishYahoo! --- On Mon, 4/25/11, Rakesh Kumar kumar3...@gmail.com wrote: From: Rakesh Kumar kumar3...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [ilugd] Question about SWAP and tempfs To: The Linux-Delhi mailing list ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org Date: Monday, April 25, 2011, 2:37 PM [...] On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 12

Re: [ilugd] Question about SWAP and tempfs

2011-04-26 Thread Karanbir Singh
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 2xram came from the linux-2.2 kernel VM and how things were handled in those days ( and I suspect before then ); Having 2xram actually made some of

[ilugd] Question about SWAP and tempfs

2011-04-25 Thread Amit Sharma
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?

Re: [ilugd] Question about SWAP and tempfs

2011-04-25 Thread Ankit Chaturvedi
On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 12:49 PM, Amit Sharma amit_...@yahoo.com 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

Re: [ilugd] Question about SWAP and tempfs

2011-04-25 Thread Rakesh Kumar
[...] On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 12:49 PM, Amit Sharma amit_...@yahoo.com 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