Re: [ilugd] Why swap partition is recommended to be only 2 * RAM..?

2004-10-23 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 20 October 2004 04:19 pm, Ritesh Agrawal wrote: > Sudev Barar wrote: > | On Tue, 2004-10-19 at 18:05, Raj Shekhar wrote: > |>>2. what happens if we assign more? > | > | Since no one has answered this I can chip in to say that there is max

Re: [ilugd] Why swap partition is recommended to be only 2 * RAM..?

2004-10-20 Thread Sudev Barar
On Wed, 2004-10-20 at 16:19, Ritesh Agrawal wrote: > In my views , many swap partitions on diffrent harddisks(if your > machine has more than one harddisk) can increase the performance of your > machine, > But what would be better option , single large swap partition or many > small swap partitio

Re: [ilugd] Why swap partition is recommended to be only 2 * RAM..?

2004-10-19 Thread Ritesh Agrawal
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sudev Barar wrote: | On Tue, 2004-10-19 at 18:05, Raj Shekhar wrote: | |>>2. what happens if we assign more? | | | Since no one has answered this I can chip in to say that there is max | limit to swap. I think in RH implementations it is 2GB. In my vi

Re: [ilugd] Why swap partition is recommended to be only 2 * RAM..?

2004-10-19 Thread Sudev Barar
On Tue, 2004-10-19 at 18:05, Raj Shekhar wrote: > > 2. what happens if we assign more? Since no one has answered this I can chip in to say that there is max limit to swap. I think in RH implementations it is 2GB. -- Sudev Barar Learning Linux ___ ilug

Re: [ilugd] Why swap partition is recommended to be only 2 * RAM..?

2004-10-19 Thread Raj Shekhar
chakri gk wrote: Dear Friends, I am beginner of Linux and got a doubt. We suggest 2 * RAM space for swap size. Please can u elucidate: 1. why only 2* RAM space for swap space. 2. what happens if we assign more? An interesting thread had occurred on th Linux kernel mailing list (LKML) "Is Swap N

Re: [ilugd] Why swap partition is recommended to be only 2 * RAM..?

2004-10-19 Thread Sanjeev \"Ghane\" Gupta
chakri gk wrote: Dear Friends, I am beginner of Linux and got a doubt. We suggest 2 * RAM space for swap size. Please can u elucidate: 1. why only 2* RAM space for swap space. The multiplier "2" is a recommendation, as a maximum value. Look at it the other way: if you are using less phsical ram t

Re: [ilugd] Why swap partition is recommended to be only 2 * RAM..?

2004-10-18 Thread Nishant Kavi
Hope the following URL answers your Q: http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/Partitioning_guidelines#Swap_space BR, N  --- On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 chakri gk wrote : > Dear Friends, >I am beginner of Linux and got a doubt. > >We suggest 2 * RAM space for s

Re: [ilugd] Why swap partition is recommended to be only 2 * RAM ..?

2004-10-18 Thread Sharninder Khera
* on the Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 10:44:37AM -, chakri gk said: > Dear Friends, > I am beginner of Linux and got a doubt. > > We suggest 2 * RAM space for swap size. > Please can u elucidate: > 1. why only 2* RAM space for swap space. > 2. what happens if we assign more? The 2*RAM recommendation

[ilugd] Why swap partition is recommended to be only 2 * RAM..?

2004-10-18 Thread chakri gk
Dear Friends, I am beginner of Linux and got a doubt. We suggest 2 * RAM space for swap size. Please can u elucidate: 1. why only 2* RAM space for swap space. 2. what happens if we assign more? Eagerly looking forward for ur answers. Thanks and Regards Chakri_gk