On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 09:57:48PM +1100, Howard Lowndes wrote: > > > Michael Chesterton wrote: > >Peter Hardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >>On Thu, 2007-02-22 at 16:24 +1100, Howard Lowndes wrote: > >>>It's recommended that your swap space should be 2x your RAM. In your > >>>case it's .2x > >>Has anybody seriously made such a recommendation this millenium? > > > >early 2.4 kernels, linus, alan, rik, etc, said at least double the > >swap was needed, especially with big uptimes. It changed somewhere in > >2.4 where it was no longer needed, but I think people like red hat > >took a while before they trusted and used the new code. > > A default FC install still uses the 2x formula so I guess there must > still be some relevance. interestingly rhel4 (don't use fc) and from what I have seen of rhel5, they still use 2G swap partitions.
what we are probably seeing is if it ain't broken don't fix/modify it. > > -- > Howard. > LANNet Computing Associates - Your Linux people <http://lannetlinux.com> > When you want a computer system that works, just choose Linux; > When you want a computer system that works, just, choose Microsoft. > -- > Flatter government, not fatter government; abolish the Australian states. > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
