Re: Size of swap Partition

2002-05-07 Thread Javier Gostling
Hi all, If you are not sure about how much disk space to devote to swap space, you can be empirical about it. Install MRTG, either from the Redhat RPM or from source (compiles cleanly) and write some scripts to monitor memory and swap space usage. After some time, check the graphs to see how much

Re: Size of swap Partition

2002-05-07 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 01:47 07 May 2002, ABrady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | The rule of thumb is, 2-2.5 times RAM. I currently have 384MB installed | and 1GB swap. Most of my swap never gets used under most conditions. | I've had it up to about 700MB used once in the last 6 months. This on a | 2.4.X kernel which su

Re: Size of swap Partition

2002-05-06 Thread ABrady
On Tue, 7 May 2002 11:28:15 +0530 [EMAIL PROTECTED] quietly intimated: > > Placed At : > > > Size of swap partition is usually recommended to be 2 * (size of ram). > But recently i went thru one article wherein it was mentioned t

Size of swap Partition

2002-05-06 Thread Ramesh_Pathak
Placed At : Size of swap partition is usually recommended to be 2 * (size of ram). But recently i went thru one article wherein it was mentioned that redhat linux wont be looking to swap beyond 128mb even though we give the swap partition size of